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Indian Railways' safety measures yield results: 58% drop in signalling failures contribute to sharp decline in accidentsIndian Railway is continuously modernizing current infrastructure of its signalling system to improve reliability. Electronic Interlocking ...- Kiwis emerges as top dietary ally against chronic constipation in new evidence-based guidelinesNew British Dietetic Association guidelines recommend 2-3 kiwifruits daily for adults with chronic idiopathic constipation, offering a spec...
- Working out to shed those extra kilos? Exercise may not help you lose weightA debate is currently underway in the scientific community regarding the effectiveness of exercise for weight loss. The constrained total e...
- Themis gets Drug Controller’s nod to launch Inosine Pranobex a novel medicine to treat Covid19, A Viral Infection
- COVID: Seven reasons mask wearing in the West was unnecessarily delayedRather than taking seriously the theory that the masking may have contributed to the low death rate, western countries dismissed mask-weari...
- View: Economies of the 21st century are too complex for a State vs market binaryFrom masters of the universe, are economists now switching to be the gods of small things? Interestingly, last year, well before the hint o...
- ET Explains: Why HCQ, Trump's Covid wonder drug, is in news againHCQ might not be as effective as previously told, a recently retracted Lancet study has found.
- Why the bottom-up approach to eradicating poverty might not workBig picture reforms will eradicate poverty, not small tweaks to programmes that botique RCTs provide.
- View: How randomised control trials have indeed been an effective tool for development economicsAn RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...
- View: Experimental economics not perfect but has potentialRCT, a new field, can make useful predictions and can help discover not "what works", but "why things work".
- If BJP had asked me for (UBI) numbers, I would have given it to them too: Abhijit BanerjeeBanerjee & Duflo, who won this year's Nobel prize in Economics, share their views on a wide array of subjects.
- View: The much talked-about randomised controlled trials are more sinned against than sinningRCTs, by creating treatment (those who get the development programme) and control groups (those who don’t), create further ethical problems...
- China willing to cooperate with India, Pakistan on AfghanistanThe entry of India and Pakistan into the SCO comes at a time when China is beginning to play a major role in Afghanistan ahead of the withd...
- Entry of India & Pakistan in SCO may help fight terrorism in the region: ChinaTill now, India along with Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan enjoyed observer status in the organisation and focussed on anti-terror...
- Indian-origin researcher Manoj Gambhir helps in Ebola vaccine trialsAn Indian-origin researcher Manoj Gambhir has helped in identifying the kind of human trial that is most effective for testing Ebola vaccin...
- Xi Jinping moots anti-terror treaty among members of Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationPresident Xi Jinping today mooted an anti-terrorism treaty among member countries of the China-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SC...
- Now, China PM wants to meet Manmohan Singh to sort out differencesChina has indicated that it wants to discuss differences with India.
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