Is free trade in agricultural goods still a realistic ideal? France may prove a key battleground. As hopes fade for salvaging global trade talks, France has announced it would keep growing genetically ...

Precaution is arguably one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented issues in the global politics of science and technology. Misunderstood, because precaution is so often wrongly asserted to be ...

New Delhi: Given the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is “nowhere near over”. India is no exception here. For the past ...

The concept of risk has had quite an impressive run in the last decade. The word ‘risk’ has found its way into the vocabulary of every field, spanning from politics, to economics, education and even ...

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine called COVAXIN, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign.(REUTERS) India will start ...

Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly uncertain, are often criticized ...

Which is more important in the initial phase of a pandemic: taking precautionary actions or responding to its severity? That is the question that researchers from SUTD set out to address in an article ...

Those travelling abroad for jobs, education and business purposes can take the precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccine anytime after three months from the second dose as required by the destination ...