Hency Thacker

John F. Kennedy had said, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” Children of today will shape the world of tomorrow. This makes the job of raising them a very crucial one. It is imperative to provide the right upbringing and education to the children to ensure that...

The Paris Agreement of 2015 was accompanied by nationally determined contribution (NDC) targets set by countries domestically and reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. However, time and again it has been proven that the NDCs submitted in 2015 are insufficient. Their cumulative effect, even if all that was committed...

According to India Against Cancer, in India, one woman dies of cervical cancer every 8 minutes. For every 2 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, one woman dies of it. Around 2.25 million people are estimated living with cancer disease in India. Over 11, 57,294 lakh new cancer patients are registered every year. About 784,821...

The Delhi government has rolled out its third edition of the Odd-Even car rationing scheme on November 4, 2019, after the city's Air Quality Index crossed 500. The scheme that has been implemented twice in the past is aimed at reducing air pollution in the city. Under the odd-even scheme, which will continue till November...

On December 26th 2004, a devastating Tsunami in the Indian ocean created havoc in 14 countries, killing over 230,000 people. The tsunami was a result of an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 with the epicentre in Sumatra in Indonesia. The earthquake wave hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands followed by the Tsunami wave which...

Sophists were the first political philosophers, contemporary to Socrates, who believed that virtue, in general, is the ability to acquire those things that people agree, give them pleasure – wealth, honour and status; and political virtue, in particular, is the ability to acquire these things by the successful use of power. Which is why,...

Veganism is a growing trend among the millennials as well as influencers across the world. With all of its health and environment benefits, it has been among the most acceptable food and lifestyle choice for a large number of people. Considering its role in animal welfare and environment conservation, November 1st of every year is...

Businesses are recognizing the risks associated with climate change. More severe weather patterns are already impacting the economy and making parts of the world more volatile. Such changes damage infrastructure, interrupt supply chains, hurt agricultural productivity and impact human health. The United Nations has estimated that the economic cost of climate-related disasters alone hit $2.245 trillion over the...

On Monday, October 21, at Neuroscience 2019, the Society for Neuroscience’s 49th annual meeting, held in Chicago, U.S., two neuroscientists warned the gathering that fellow scientists are “perilously close” to crossing the ethical red line of growing mini-brains or organoids in the laboratory that can perceive or feel things. Organoids are a group of cells...

Water is the most important resource for the survival of life. In fact, life for the first time was detected not on land, but water. Even today, when our scientists try to explore other planets for the possibility of life there, they look for the existence of water on it. Almost two-thirds of the earth’s...

It has been rightly said that ‘Prevention is better than cure.’  Especially in the context of healthcare. Technological advancement is taking slow but sure steps towards this ideal. Research laboratories working under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced the completion of genome sequencing of 1008 Indian individuals representing diverse ethnic groups...

According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report, about 32 per cent of 78 million tones of annual plastic packaging production is being dumped in our oceans. A New Delhi-based Energy and Resource Institute has estimated that around 43 per cent of plastic manufactured is used for packaging and most of it is single-use. Recognising...