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Bharat Biotech COVID-19 vaccine claimed to have 80.6% efficacy

'Shot well tolerated in participants; adverse events balanced between vaccine and placebo arms of the trial'    

Delhi Chalo: Amid police face-off, farmers keep up the march

The ‘Delhi Chalo’ (Onward to Delhi) agitation began November 26, 2020, as thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and …

What's the right strategy to fight the scourge of open defecation?

The inaugural edition of Down To Earth Hindi carried a cover story on the challenge of sanitation in India. The story analysed whether, and how, …

Whose budget is it, Mr Jaitley?

Being the first full year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government, there was expectation that the finance minister's announcements …

Bird watchers record over 200 bird species in Chhattisgarh’s Kanger Valley National Park

The landscape of Kanger Valley can potentially host species found in the Himalayas, the Northeast, the Eastern and Western Ghats, the survey showed

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

Union Budget 2022-23: Number of centrally sponsored schemes cut by half

19 schemes under Ministry of Women & Child Development ‘rationalised’ revamped to only 3  

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

IQAir Report: Take the findings with a pinch of salt, says expert

Many developing countries, unlike India, do not have proper air monitoring systems; if they did, India's ranking would be better

The cleanest cities of India: The transgender community and women keep Paradeep clean

Paradeep has set up a socio-economic model that not only integrates the marginalised but also generates enough revenue to make itself self-…

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 15-19)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week

Into the deep space

NASA's New Horizons mission has broken all records of space exploration by exploring deep space objects beyond Pluto, such as Ultima Thule. Here'…

How deep is Indian agrarian crisis that farmers had to knock the doors of New Delhi

Thousands of farmers from all over the country took to the streets of the national capital as part of the Kisan Mukti manch, seeking a …

Monsoon reaches Mumbai, brings waterlogging along with it

National Disaster Response Force teams have been deployed at various places, including Hindmata

Dealing with the deluge

Floods are becoming more unusual in scale and severity. It is time we shifted our focus from flood relief to flood governance

70 years and waiting

India had walked the difficult road to independence but it is yet to cast off the chains that dwarf the spirit of freedom. We are yet to be free …

In Parliament on August 9, 2016

Here is a round-up of debates on environmental and developmental issues that took place during the Parliament (Monsoon) Session

Oceans are losing oxygen due to climate change

Reduction of dissolved oxygen in oceans will leave majority of aquatic life struggling to breathe

This week from the world of science and environment

From heritage sites at risk to Maldives ratifying the Paris climate deal, here is a quick look at news you may have missed this week

Leonardo DiCaprio highlights climate change in Oscar acceptance speech

Let us not take this planet for granted, appeals actor after receiving the Oscar for ‘The Revenant’

Cauvery river dispute

We track the many twists and turns in the Cauvery water dispute tale. The river still remains a bone of contention between Karnataka and Tamil …

42% Indian graduates under 25 unemployed: Report

The number of unemployed graduates under 25 was double that of youth with just higher secondary education in the same age category

Pepsico India withdraws all cases against Gujarat potato farmers

The company had sued nine farmers in Gujarat for alleged intellectual property “rights infringement” on grounds that they “…

Is India ready: CSE finds worrying signs of heat stress

Summer 2022 was 2nd-hottest since 2010; now monsoon leaving it behind