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20 Sep 2020
Indian researchers directed by the government @ICMRDELHI to remove from their scientific paper #COVID19 coronavirus infection prevalence data from 10 cities. Experts say the intervention raises questions about research ethics and integrity. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/how…

How Covid numbers were hushed up

The head of India’s health research agency had asked researchers to remove infection prevalence information from the 10 cities’ hotspots they had included in their paper

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Stone tools from a prehistoric site in India 139,000 years old have modern human "signatures" but the toolmakers' identity remains a mystery. Tools dispute assumptions that only modern humans could make such tools. Paper in @PLOSONE Story in @ttindia telegraphindia.com/science-t…

139000-year-old tools 'match' modern craft: Makers' identity a mystery in Andhra Pradesh cache

The excavations near a village named Retlapalle in Prakasam district have yielded the so-called 'middle-paleolithic' stone tools that archaeologists say support the idea that certain extinct ancest...

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Fruit flies set to become inaugural "passengers" on India's first uncrewed Gaganyaan flight if India's space agency @isro goes ahead with a proposal for a piggyback biology experiment. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/gag…

Gaganyaan's piggyback experiment on kidney stones: Fruit flies to be spacecraft's first 'passengers'

The experiment, proposed by the IIST’s space biology group and funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), envisions sending 20 containers, each housing 30 to 40 fruit flies, on the...

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Scientists with @isro use @NASA satellite to generate the most detailed undersea map yet of Adam's bridge, or Ram Setu, the submerged ridge extending from Dhanushkodi in India to Talaimannar island in Sri Lanka. Research in @SciReports. Story in @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/isr…

ISRO sheds light on Adam's bridge

The structure is also known as Ram Setu and described in the epic Ramayana as a bridge built by the ape army of Ram to help him reach Sri Lanka, the land of Ravana, to win back his wife Sita

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Scientists flag falling levels of key essential minerals in rice and wheat. India's staple carbohydrates losing iron, calcium, zinc. Rice gaining toxic elements. A study in @SciReports - a journal from @NaturePortfolio @ttindia telegraphindia.com/health/ri…

Rice and wheat lose essential nutrients: Toxic elements have increased in grains, says study

Scientists have found that the concentrations of essential elements including calcium, iron and zinc in grains from present-day cultivated rice and wheat varieties are between 19 per cent to 45 per...

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Surgeons in India probe "interruptions" in ORs -- count how many times surgeons took phone calls, walked out of sterile areas, and faced faulty instruments during surgeries. Gastrointestinal surgeon @sanjaynagral calls it a "unique" study. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/cal…

Calls on mobile phones, faulty instruments: Study flags interruptions in operation rooms

Surgeons at a Bangalore teaching hospital who installed audio-video recorders for two months in their own ORs for the study say their findings indicate that preventable interruptions are common in ORs

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Indian tabletop feat @iiscbangalore breaches heat engine barrier proposed by Sadi Carnot 200 years ago. Research led by @AjaySoodIISc and described in the journal @NatureComms @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/ban…

Bangalore: Indian physicists break 200-year-old heat engine barrier 

Researchers achieve tabletop feat raising hopes of high-efficiency engines

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In 21st century India, black magic rituals threaten slender loris populations. #Wildlife scientists have documented for the first time with data and details what the lead researcher has described as "acts of horror" ... @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/bla…

Black magic threat to slender loris continue to thrive in 21st century

Researchers observe the animals with their eyes or hands burnt or pierced, needle pricks in their hearts, livers or kidneys, and their limbs, spines or fingers broken

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Health experts, including some guiding @WHO the World Health Organisation's #COVID19 mortality assessment exercise, say the Indian health ministry's @MoHFW_INDIA May 5 statement decrying WHO's estimation method is "misleading." @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/mis…

Covid toll: Lead author of WHO study says Centre's twin claims 'misleading'

We did not use temperature to estimate mortality for India and the test positivity rate too was irrelevant for India’s estimate — and the government knows this, clarifies Jon Wakefield

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Data table with key numbers missing in India's 2020 births-and-deaths registration report. Its absence has fueled afresh questions about how the health ministry could claim 99.9 per cent death registration level in 2020. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/tab…

Table key to data missing from 2020 birth-and-death report

Union health ministry asserts that Civil Registration System figures should be considered 'authentic'

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India's National Family Health Survey 2019-21 documents a death registration level of 71 per cent, significantly lower than 99.9 per cent in 2020 as asserted by the Union health ministry. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/uni…

Union health ministry’s survey puts question mark on death data

Civil Registration System figures are closest to the truth and should be considered authentic, say officials

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The World Health Organisation has estimated 4.7 million excess deaths in India among an estimated 14.9 million worldwide over two years of the pandemic. But India has questioned the estimation methodology. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/who…

WHO estimates 4.74 million excess Covid deaths in India

Health ministry says World Health Organisation did not take into account the actual figures from the country

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Health and consumer groups in India have sought health risk warnings on certain packaged processed food and asked the government to abandon a plan to rate food through health stars. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/hea…

Health groups want warning labels on 'unhealthy' food

Paediatricians, nutritionists, public health specialists and consumer rights advocates seek front-of-pack warnings

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Scientists at #IIT Kharagpur have observed through studies on newborn mice that foetal brain cells detect select sounds for long-term retention much earlier than assumed. Research described in @SfNJournals #JNeurosci reported in @TT telegraphindia.com/india/stu…

Study shows sound’s impact on foetal brain cells

Fresh insight into how third-trimester foetuses discern mom’s voice

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Doctors wonder how adding yoga and a new medical oath that students take while in medical college will help produce better doctors. telegraphindia.com/india/yog…

Yoga and exit exam for medical students to complete graduation

NMC said that the candidates should be 'introduced' to a 'modified Charak Shapath'

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Survey to determine TB prevalence finds India distant from "elimination" target. Health experts say shortages of funds and delays in diagnosis have contributed to the slow progress in reducing prevalence. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/tub…
Sections of Indian doctors are disappointed at what they view as the Ayush ministry’s resistance to address scientific questions raised by their observations of liver injury in people who had consumed giloy. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/con…
Genetics study shows Indian migratory waves into southeast Asia over several centuries seeded Indian culture there. Ancient Indian ingress into populations in present-day Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/int…
A new study in @PLOSONE has estimated India's #COVID19 mortality could be 6 to 8 times the official counts, close to what Dr Prabhat Jha @countthedead and coauthors had estimated last month in their study in @ScienceMagazine. @ttindia on Feb 17. telegraphindia.com/india/ind…

India’s Covid mortality 6 to 8 times higher than official counts: Study

If the estimates are correct, it would become the country with the highest death toll, well ahead of around 800,000 deaths so far in the US and 600,000 in Brazil

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Earth's first continents rose from the ocean 3.2 billion years ago, or 700 million years earlier than thought. India's Singhbhum region was among the earliest continental land to meet air. #Geology @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/sin…

Singhbhum earliest continental land to rise above ocean

Scientists from India, Australia and the US's findings push back the emergence of continents by 700 million years

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Many thousands of years ago, the ancestors of modern dogs "came for food, but stayed on for love," suggests new research on stray dogs from India. #dogs @ttindia telegraphindia.com/india/iis…

IISER study reveals love, not treats, made dog man’s best friend

Research by canine behaviour biologists show that stray dogs show signs of attachment and trust even after short periods of petting by an unfamiliar human

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