Cold waves killed more Indians than heat waves since 1980: IMD

There has also been a 506% increase in the number of cold waves in India in this decade

India’s cold-wave regions to have warm winter: IMD

While the winter season in general will be warm, based on average temperature, the cold-wave regions would be warmer than other regions

Can India’s emergency response to Covid-19 be more systematic?

Incident Response System is an emergency response management system ideally suited for an extraordinary situation as being seen now

Swachh Bharat Mission: another futile toilet chase?

Swachh Bharat Mission is blindly chasing toilets-a private good and not behavioural change – a public good essential to secure sanitation

Rainfall expected in many states of India

An upper air trough to bring first widespread rainfall event of this winter season

Just how harmful is air pollution and how bad is India placed

In India, life expectancy dropped by 3.86 years in 2015 due to air pollution

Is Bhilwara Rajasthan’s COVID-19 hotspot?

A large number of people had returned to the town from abroad recently, according to accounts

Heatwave over north, central India abating, says private forecaster

Temperatures to fall after rising marginally in the next two days

Simply Put: COVID-19 and India's poor

COVID-19: What exactly is community transmission?

It is the third phase of a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization

जग बीती: सुरक्षा एवं रोजगार

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COVID-19: Centre tells SC 30% migrants on move may have virus

‘We would quarantine them at shelter homes to prevent large-scale contagion’

‘North Atlantic Oscillation may have played a role in this time's cold wave’

Down To Earth speaks to IMD scientist Rajendra Kumar Jenamani about why temperatures dipped so much this winter in spite of its prediction to the …

As northwest India endures unusual dust storms, northeast gets flooded before monsoon arrives

The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland

Simply Put: The poor's COVID-19 quandary

Simply Put: Hospital/Gaushala

Coronavirus update: India becomes first country to suspend visas of all foreign nationals

Visas of diplomats, officials, UN / International Organisations officials’ employment visas are exempted

पिशरोथ रामा पिशरोटी : भारत में सुदूर संवेदन के जनक

1960 के दशक के अंत में उन्होंने नारियल विल्ट रोग का पता लगाने के लिए अपने सुदूर संवेदन संबंधी अग्रणी प्रयोग किए जो सफल ...

IISF 2019: Health conclave multitude of issues

Rampant use of antibiotics in focus

Will an India-Pakistan war usher in a nuclear winter?

If the 2 countries fire their nukes, global temperatures may plummet2-5°C

Coal bonanza

India emits the most sulphur dioxide in the world

Five of the top 10 SO2 emission hotspots from coal/power generation industry across the world are in India, finds a Greenpeace study

Will this June be the driest ever on record?

One quarter of the monsoon will soon be over and rainfall deficit has already hit 44 per cent

Geminid meteor shower 2018: Celestial fireworks to be visible in clear, northern skies

The shower would be visible on December 13-14 across India. But the best visibility would be in the mountains and deserts of the north