It is tiniest of tiny, doesn’t even have a DNA of its own to replicate (thus needs a host to multiply, like a cuckoo). It is just a protein cell and RNA strand inside a layer of fat. Visualise a hen egg. Soap can wash away that fat and kill it, like breaking the shell of a breakfast egg. Yet, the new coronavirus is a formidable killer. It has forced about three billion people indoors around the world—unprecedented in human history.
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Heatwave-driven mental health disorders and farmer suicides are steeply on the rise but authorities are yet to take concrete steps
The warning signs are flashing for all to see. But no one is bothered. Not the people, nor the polity.
Forget escaping to Shimla or Manali in summers. The heatwave has hit Himachal Pradesh with extreme weather events and water scarcity
India has no policy for rehabilitating climate refugees even as the people living along coastal West Bengal and Odisha are exposed to greater vulnerability
Farmers are waking up to the threat of extreme heatwaves across India. Are our policymakers listening?
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