Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet decided Monday to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. This year’s…
How Healthy Almonds Are for You
Until this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not allow almonds to be called “healthy” on food labels, due to the agency’s regulatory definition of the term…
India Mulls Right to Clean Air for Every Citizen
Every citizen has a right to clean air and clean source of energy, and the day may not be far when there may be a public demand to bring in…
Swachhta Abhiyan Touching People’s Lives: Narendra Modi
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that the government’s Swachhta Abhiyan (cleanliness campaign) is touching people’s lives. He said that while no one likes dirt or dirty surroundings, the habit…
Air Pollution Kills 6.5 Million People in a Year: WHO
With nearly 6.5 million people dying annually from air pollution and 92 per cent of the world’s population living in places where levels exceed recommended limits, the United Nations (UN)…
How India Plans to Control Its Population Growth
How India Plans to Control Its Population Growth As increasing population has become a major threat to India’s economic development, the government has decided to take a few steps to…