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Soil matters

Unhealthy soil leads to unhealthy children. India needs to improve soil micronutrients not just to increase crop productivity, but also to …

Simply Put: World Lion Day 2023

Vanishing glaciers forests: Google’s Earth Day doodle shows how climate change altered the planet

Mount Kilimanjaro, Sermersooq, Great Barrier Reef, Harz Forests featured in the doodle

World Day To Combat Desertification 2023: My job is to communicate complex issues involving land, Ricky Kej to DTE

The three-time Grammy Award recipient has been striving to highlight the need to pay attention to and reverse the growing trends of land …

World Sparrow Day 2024: How a Mysuru woman is trying to bring sparrows back to the city

Kokila Ramesh Jain makes customised terracotta nests to help attract the birds; she also organises citizen awareness events to highlight their …

Assisted hunting

States are increasingly translocating herbivores and ungulates to reserves to ensure adequate prey base for tigers. But this strategy may not …

World Water Day 2023: Dharwad revived traditional ponds to recharge its groundwater

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, groundwater sources are recharged and augmented by revived ponds that act as village-level groundwater-recharge …

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World Water Day 2023: Traditional reverence helped preserve and tap North Sikkim’s springs

Facililated by the Jal Jeevan Mission, around 90 per cent of the households in the district now have functional household tap connections

Costing norms for mid-day meals, Anganwadis not revised despite food inflation

Schools, Anganwadis find it difficult to meet nutritional needs of children, mothers, as a result

World Health Day: ‘Enable all rural Indian girls to avail education, regardless of categories’

In states like Rajasthan, pre-matric scholarships are restricted to socially disadvantaged populations and sums vary across categories, which …

World Water Day 2023: Nuapada switched to surface from ground sources to solve its problems of quality and quantity

After the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, the district witnessed a drastic change in the sector of rural water supply. River water was …

World Water Day 2023: Ladana in Rajasthan made conjunctive use of ground, surface sources to solve its scarcity problem

The village dug three wells and constructed an overhead tank that can store both groud and surface water

Stockholm 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment: World Environment Day 2022

It became the first UN conference which had the word environment in its title.

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World Lion Day 2023: The big cat once roamed Arabia and left an indelible mark on Arab culture

It is said that there are nearly 700 names or terms used for the lion in Arabic dialects and literature  

World Water Day 2023: India can show the world how water management can be reinvented, says CSE

National workshop held in Lucknow on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Sanitation and Water for All’ highlights the steps Uttar Pradesh is …

Question mark over Bihar kids’ future as mid-day meals in limbo due to pandemic

Malnutrition and stunting among Bihar’s children could rise due to mid-day meals being stopped ever since COVID-19 struck

World Environment Day 2023: This project in south India is all about bridging art, conservation and empowerment

Adivasis make life-sized elephants from lantana; this provides them with employment besides decreasing lantana in the forest and raises awareness …

World Cancer Day 2023: Indian children with the disease are in dire straits; here is why

Children with cancer in India grapple with lack of awareness, adequate treatment and low survival rate

Steep rise in food poisoning cases after eating mid-day meals this year: Data

Food poisoning cases in Bihar, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been highest in the last 6 years