Australia-based food-safety scientist Sukhvinder Pal Singh, whose roots hail from a family of farmers in Una, Himachal Pradesh, is a senior research scientist with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, in Ourimbah. Fondly called SP Singh, at 46, he leads research on fresh-produce safety and traceability. His work following Australia’s deadly 2018 Listeria (bacteria...
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September 18, 2026September 18, 2026Society
Who’s watching what we eat? Inside India’s food adulteration problem
When Bikaner-based graphic designer Laxmi Rajpurohit, 22, began noticing changes in the taste, smell and consistency of the milk her family was getting from a big, reputed brand, she suspected foul play and decided to take things in her hands. She had read about simple ways of testing milk at home to check for water,...
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Science & Tech, Society
Interview | Steve Brusatte on why India could be the world’s next dinosaur hotspot
Roughly once a week, a creature dead for tens of millions of years is introduced to science for the first time. Around 50 new dinosaur species are named every year — a pace the species might have struggled to match even at their peak in the Cretaceous period, between 145 and 66 million years ago. Steve...
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April 23, 2026April 23, 2026Science & Tech, Society
Earth Day 2026: India’s plastic crisis and blame game
A LEGO building blocks set — complete with bricks, cars and bridges — is the highlight of my toddler’s toy cupboard. It has been in my family for over three decades, surviving rough play among cousins, flooded homes, and years locked away in an attic. Its continued usability is no accident: LEGO is made from tough,...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech, Society
The Indian scientist couple history forgot — and the new study bringing their ‘Jeewanu’ back to life
It was early 2023. In a ground-floor laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in north Bengaluru, Ph.D candidate Nayan Chakraborty was readying to examine the results of another iteration of an experiment he had been attempting for three months. There was no reason to believe this trial, nearly his 1,000th, would be...
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Suspect in Brown University and MIT Professor Shootings Found Dead by Suicide, Authorities Confirm
Salem, New Hampshire — The man suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Brown University and the subsequent killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor was found dead late Thursday in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement officials confirmed. The suspect has been...
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May 14, 2025May 14, 2025Society
Mangoes 2025: Tamil Nadu farmers on the season’s specialities
A squirrel has scooped out a tiny hole in an Imam Pasand mango that farmer K Baskar has set aside. “I had left the box outside just a few minutes ago!” he chuckles. Animals and birds make away with a lot of the produce at his 40-acre organic farm that borders Dindigul district. But he...
