Ganapati Mudur

Journalist, Science Writer, The Telegraph, New Delhi, India
Former Fellow, Knight Science Journalism Program, MIT

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Indian researchers directed by the government @ICMRDELHI to remove from their scientific paper #COVID19 coronavirus infection prevalence data from 10 cities. Experts say the intervention raises questions about research ethics and integrity. @ttindia
https://t.co/jR2Mcnem9c

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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 @PLOSONE Story in @ttindia
https://t.co/QHR0p1tniI

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/9MxDLWFR0w

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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 @SciReports. Story in @ttindia https://t.co/ThREs4jP5F

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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 @SciReports - a journal from @NaturePortfolio
@ttindia
https://t.co/JPiVS3rviM

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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 @sanjaynagral calls it a "unique" study. @ttindia
https://t.co/YzLx0EM2fV

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Indian tabletop feat @iiscbangalore breaches heat engine barrier proposed by Sadi Carnot 200 years ago. Research led by @AjaySoodIISc and described in the journal @NatureComms
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https://t.co/nDyEML4fL0

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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" ... @ttindia
https://t.co/Ipkwacu7zt

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Health experts, including some guiding @WHO the World Health Organisation's #COVID19 mortality assessment exercise, say the Indian health ministry's @MoHFW_INDIA May 5 statement decrying WHO's estimation method is "misleading." @ttindia
https://t.co/QzgrkaQgrr

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/ObcE2oSm8y

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/W2wIG4E2FX

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/vHkRgfZnim

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/OCKwHl8sdL

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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 @SfNJournals #JNeurosci reported in @TT
https://t.co/xWORDAGZHm

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Doctors wonder how adding yoga and a new medical oath that students take while in medical college will help produce better doctors.
https://t.co/XAkBjXVPAX

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/pLldhdneb9

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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. @ttindia
https://t.co/ik5edKCQry

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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.
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https://t.co/Vz5vWrHrRK

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A new study in @PLOSONE 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 @ScienceMagazine. @ttindia on Feb 17. https://t.co/rLaJ23cyu6

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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 @ttindia
https://t.co/rjdpi49FT3

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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 @ttindia
https://t.co/KAmCKR94zE