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Seethalakshmi S

ARTICLES BY SEETHALAKSHMI S

Instead of usual grades of As to Fs, Harvard has decided to award ‘Emergency Satisfactory’ or ‘Emergency Unsatisfactory’. (Photo: Getty)

Top US universities modify grading policy for spring classes

2 min read . 27 Aug 2021

The listening circles function as support group where members discuss inspirational stories, their own lives, and learn from one another (Seethalakshmi S)

Meet the youth of Kerala's Leadership Village

4 min read . 17 Jun 2021

A medic administers a dose of the covid-19 vaccine during a drive-in vaccination programme in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. (ANI)

What rural India needs right now to slow the spread of covid

6 min read . 26 May 2021

The organisation is guiding underprivileged to register and schedule their vaccine appointments.

How volunteers are keeping covid patients spirits up

2 min read . 21 May 2021

Professor Sunil Bajpai, the head of Department of Earth Sciences at IIT Roorkee, with one of the many fossils in his laboratory.

It's possible that whales and horses originated in India

5 min read . 01 Apr 2021

Buddhist monks at the NP Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

90-year-old Bengaluru woman in 'thukdam', or post-death meditative state, surprises scientists

4 min read . 22 Dec 2020

A Harvard study had revealed that as many as 5.2 million medical errors occurred in India annually

Speech-to-text AI tool helps docs keep error-free records

2 min read . 16 Nov 2020

The incidence of oral cancer is high in rural areas due to the consumption of tobacco. Photo: Bloomberg

Bengaluru startup builds AI tool to screen oral cancer

1 min read . 13 Oct 2020

DART has developed the first personalised medicine for DMD using antisense oligonucleotides (AO) based exon skipping technology. Photo: Mint.

Drugs controller approves human trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug

2 min read . 05 Oct 2020

The Wipro research team is working with clinicians and speech pathologists from HCG and covid hospitals like Bangalore Medical College and Research Hospital and Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mumbai

IT major Wipro, cancer specialist HCG working on covid cough recorder app

2 min read . 25 Sept 2020

Even if classes have re-started, many teenagers are continuing to take orders and make deliveries. (Photo: Getty)

College delayed, teens start businesses from home

2 min read . 23 Sept 2020

The Union Health Ministry has set guidelines and protocols for hospitals, health workers and families on last rites, funerals and handling the dead. (AP)

Covid-19 robs families of chance to say goodbye

3 min read . 17 Sept 2020

(representational image) (PTI)

Plasma flown from Bengaluru to Srinagar for covid patient

1 min read . 01 Sept 2020

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Pandemic holds up kids’ surgeries

2 min read . 21 Aug 2020

The National Sample Survey Organisation’s 2017-18 household survey put the number of out-of-school children in India (6-17 years) at 3.22 crore.

Out-of-school children likely to double in India due to coronavirus

2 min read . 16 Aug 2020

Right now, children have been sequestered at home, keeping them relatively safe (Photo: HT)

Children at risk if schools re-open, say doctors

2 min read . 13 Aug 2020

Representative Image (AP)

Covid symptoms mimic dengue, say doctors

1 min read . 05 Aug 2020

K. Kasturirangan. Photo: HT

'A flexible education system under NEP 2020 will open our minds to excellence'

5 min read . 30 Jul 2020

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddiyurappa (R) holds a meeting with the heads of private medical colleges over the situation of COVID-19 treatment, in Bengaluru, saturday, July 18, 2020. (PTI)

Governance failure, lack of planning pushed Karnataka’s case count to 1 lakh

5 min read . 27 Jul 2020

A doctor wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit looks after a covid-19 patient. (Photo: AFP)

As cases rise, resources run short, states reduce contact tracing

2 min read . 27 Jul 2020