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Festivals like SARAS serve as powerful platforms for decentralised empowerment
Governance

Festivals like SARAS serve as powerful platforms for decentralised empowerment

Swasti Pachauri
5 min read
Through these events, women-led cafés, canteens, and collectives not only strengthen their local brands but also emerge as pivotal actors in shaping livelihoods and sustaining local economies
As told to Parliament (December 12, 2025): India unveils its first home-grown CRISPR therapy for affordable sickle cell treatment
Governance

As told to Parliament (December 12, 2025): India unveils its first home-grown CRISPR therapy for affordable sickle cell treatment

DTE Staff
3 min read
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The Aravalli judgement is not erosion by wind or time — it is erasure by bureaucratic language
Environment

The Aravalli judgement is not erosion by wind or time — it is erasure by bureaucratic language

Kalpita Bhar Paul
6 min read
If we let the Aravalli disappear — not just physically, but conceptually — we lose more than a mountain. We lose a way of relating to the world
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As told to Parliament (December 12, 2025): India unveils its first home-grown CRISPR therapy for affordable sickle cell treatment
Governance
As told to Parliament (December 12, 2025): India unveils its first home-grown CRISPR therapy for affordable sickle cell treatment
By
DTE Staff
3 min read
Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Scientists warn Cyclone Senyar may have pushed Tapanuli orangutan closer to extinction
By
Himanshu Nitnaware
3 min read
Investing in global energy and food system transitions could prevent nine million premature deaths by 2050, largely from reduced air pollution, the UN said.
Climate Change
UN report warns world has entered ‘uncharted territory’ as future warming set to exceed earlier estimates
By
Jayanta Basu
4 min read
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 11, 2025)
Environment
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 11, 2025)
By
DTE Staff
3 min read
Tamil Nadu IAS officer Supriya Sahu is among UNEP’s 2025 ‘Champions of the Earth’
Environment
Tamil Nadu IAS officer Supriya Sahu is among UNEP’s 2025 ‘Champions of the Earth’
By
DTE Staff
2 min read
Polar bears in southeast Greenland are changing their DNA to adapt and survive in a warming Arctic: Study
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Polar bears in southeast Greenland are changing their DNA to adapt and survive in a warming Arctic: Study
By
Rajat Ghai
2 min read
Extreme rainfall from cyclones Senyar and Ditwah made more intense by warming: WWA
Climate Change
Extreme rainfall from cyclones Senyar and Ditwah made more intense by warming: WWA
By
Akshit Sangomla
3 min read
Large aluminium steel rolls in the factory.
Economy
Global standards drive trade but widen gap between rich and poor countries, World Bank warns
By
Shagun
3 min read
African countries transitioning from coal but not doing enough to exploit solar potential: UN Report
Africa
African countries transitioning from coal but not doing enough to exploit solar potential: UN Report
By
Maina Waruru
4 min read
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 10, 2025)
Governance
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 10, 2025)
By
DTE Staff
4 min read
Not ‘wastelands’: Western India’s savannas have existed for centuries, medieval Marathi literature reveals
Forests
Not ‘wastelands’: Western India’s savannas have existed for centuries, medieval Marathi literature reveals
By
Suhani Bhardwaj
2 min read
Coral reef in Mahahual, Mexico, in 2011
Climate Change
Caribbean coral reefs have halved since 1980s as heat, disease intensify
By
Himanshu Nitnaware
4 min read
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