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On August 8th the World Health Organisation declared the West African Ebola outbreak a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. The declaration came four months after the WHO reported a major Ebola outbreak in Guinea in … Read more

Within days of the BJP-led government coming to power, announcement was made of an enhanced policy thrust on ethanol-blending of petrol. While the earlier biofuels policy of the government, initiated by the Vajpayee-led NDA government … Read more

The Indian media has missed the major implications of the latest Snowden disclosures. It is not simply that India is one of the countries, or that the BJP is one of the political organisations under … Read more

The new government’s push towards digital India through increased use of e-governance will have to wait for some time as the digital security of on-line transactions among government entities has been seriously compromised. The system … Read more

Since being installed in government the BJP’s ministers have announced a slew of measures to usher in “better days”. True to this pattern, the new government’s health minister – Dr.Harsh Vardhan – has articulated a … Read more

The only reason there is a question mark at the end of the title is that, although a Policy Note is pending consideration by the Cabinet, the BJP-led government has not yet announced its decision. … Read more

A favourite Modi idea, highlighted in the BJP manifesto, is to introduce bullet trains in India. Not just in one or two small stretches as has been contemplated of and on earlier, but in a … Read more

  DELHI SCIENCE FORUM 158, Lower Ground Floor, Saket, New Delhi – 110017 APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE“BHOPAL DISASTER LITIGATION FUND” Dear friends, For the last several years, the Delhi Science Forum (DSF) has been … Read more

NETmundial – a global conference on Internet governance – was held last week in Sao Paulo (April 23-24) and ended with a non-binding outcome statement that was weak on surveillance and with some gains for … Read more

The recent disclosures that have come in the press that Vodafone and Verizon have helped their “parent” spy outfits – GCHQ (UK) and NSA (USA) – to spy on the Indian telecom network will not … Read more

Reliance and the near doubling of the gas price led to Kejriwal’s short-lived government filing an FIR against Moily, the Petroleum Minister and Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited. The scam in gas … Read more

IN the huge ad campaign that the Vajpayee government has run, now declared partisan and stopped by the Election Commission, there was no talk of the railways. The state-owned Indian Railways carries 11 million people … Read more