Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta The fractions of plastic debris that are less than 5 mm in the largest dimension or diameter are commonly referred to as microplastics. Microscopic plastic debris mainly results from the fragmentation of larger plastic debris that enters rivers and eventually reaches the oceans. Recent literature indicates that microplastic debris is […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata Malaria is the deadliest vector-borne disease worldwide with an average of 228 million cases, and 405,000 deaths in 2018, mainly in the African Region (93%), and the South-East Asia Region (3.4%). In Laos, the malaria burden remains despite a significant reduction of cases during the last decade. In the condition […]
–Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata With the horror with which Covid-19 is spreading presently, the story of U.S President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Coronavirus was either engineered intentionally or was the result of a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, has brought forward terror in the minds of people. According […]
