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 The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/iiser-st…

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 The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/singhbhu…

A new study in PLOS One 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 Science Magazine. The Telegraph on Feb 17. telegraphindia.com/india/indias-c…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/internat…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/concern-…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/tubercul…

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/yoga-exi…

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 SfN Journals #JNeurosci reported in @TT telegraphindia.com/india/study-sh…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/health-c…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/who-rele…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/union-he…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/table-on…

Health experts, including some guiding World Health Organization (WHO) the World Health Organisation's #COVID19 mortality assessment exercise, say the Indian health ministry's Ministry of Health May 5 statement decrying WHO's estimation method is "misleading." The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/misleadi…

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" ... The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/black-ma…

Indian tabletop feat IISc Bangalore breaches heat engine barrier proposed by Sadi Carnot 200 years ago. Research led by Ajay Sood and described in the journal Nature Communications The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/bangalor…

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 sanjay nagral calls it a "unique" study. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/calls-on…

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 Scientific Reports - a journal from Nature Portfolio The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/health/rice-an…

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 Scientific Reports. Story in The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/isro-she…

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. The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/india/gaganyaa…

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 PLOS One Story in The Telegraph telegraphindia.com/science-tech/1…