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Health

Measles-Rubella vaccine deaths give Uttar Pradesh a scare

The state administration has appealed to the Indian Medical Association to spread awareness …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Researchers quantify damage caused by peafowl to farmers

They selected two plots. Peafowl were allowed in one and not in the other. After four years …

Science & Technology

New mission to focus on connecting cyber and physical systems

It will promote basic and translational research with the objective of developing and demonstrating CPS technologies keeping in view national priorities. Credit: Getty Images

Central govt approves a new national mission, at a cost of Rs 3,660 crore, to support cyber …

Water

‘Climate change one of many reasons for Kerala’s receding groundwater table’

Anand Zacharias, development associate (water) with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, …

Agriculture

Will India’s new agricultural export policy work?

Food grain buffers exceed need, global prices remain depressed

Climate Change

COP 24: Limited progress, limited ambition at end of Week One in Katowice

Extremely tough to have a complete and robust, fair and ambitious rulebook within the …

Energy

Costa Rica beating its own records on renewable energy usage

The nation went 300 days using only renewable energy this year. It beat its own …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Amazon river dolphins now listed as ‘Endangered’ by IUCN

The update is part of assessments or reassessments of 35 cetacean species, subspecies or …

Videos

Natural Disasters

India lost more than 70,000 people because of climate change-related disasters

A new report by an international thinktank Germanwatch has some bad news for India. It says that between 1998 and 2017, India lost, on an average, 3,660 people every year because of extreme weather events. In this period 73,212 casualties were reported from India.

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Why the cheetah may never come back to India?

Agriculture

Voices of women from Dilli Chalo: We need equal rights as men farmers

Science & Technology

Watch: an atlas for the visually impaired

Agriculture

Farmers explain what brings them to the capital

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Governance

संसद में 33 प्रतिशत महिलाओं की उपस्थिति 55 साल में होगी

महिला मतदाताओं की बढ़ती संख्या के बावजूद विधानसभाओं में उनकी उपस्थिति बमुश्किल 7 से 8 प्रतिशत है। जबकि संसद में उनकी मौजूदगी महज 11 प्रतिशत ही है।

Health

एमआर टीकाकरण से दो बच्चों की मौत से दहशत

शाहजहांपुर में 30, लखीमपुर खीरी में 22, मैनपुरी में 12, फिरोजाबाद में चार, उन्नाव में 29, महोबा और टुंडला में आठ-आठ बच्चों की तबीयत खराब होने से डर का माहौल

Health

दो नई विधियों से जल्द पहचाना जाएगा टीबी

बीमारी के प्रसार एवं प्रकोप से बचने और रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता विकसित करने के लिए टीबी की पहचान और उपचार महत्वपूर्ण है

Sunita Narain's Desk

Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and the Editor of Down To Earth magazine. She is an environmentalist who pushes for changes in policies, practices and mindsets