Piecing the monsoon puzzle

As scientists understand the monsoon triggers better, they find new drivers for the complex phenomenon

AgriStack: Linking land records with database will exclude labourers, farmers, warn experts

Making land records the basis for farmer database would mean excluding tenant farmers, sharecroppers and agricultural labourers from the …

The Dangs: How a remote part of Gujarat has suffered over 200 years on forest rights

Having suffered under both, the British and post-independence governments, even the Forest Rights Act 2006 has been partially and messily …

Meanwhile, the monsoon anomaly

Instead of quantum of rainfall, we must analyse the distribution of rainfall to understand the changing nature of the monsoon

Claims we buy

For food manufacturers, misleading claims are a way of marketing in India. It's time the government made the regulations stringent and brought …

Apex court orders all states to ensure sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs

Order comes in response to petitions by animal welfare groups that local bodies were not doing enough on the matter

Has the slump in monsoon really ended?

The all India rainfall deficit is down to 25 per cent as of July 23, showing an improvement in the rainfall scenario. But will the 'run rate' of …

Simply Put: Letter of apology

Why India must conserve its palm trees

The country has a variety of palm trees. But they are diminishing fast

Simply put: Guillotine loom

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

As told to Parliament (November 29, 2021): Industries contribute up to a third of Delhi’s pollution

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Simply Put: Travelling light

Simply Put: Delhi deluged

Third positive case of COVID-19 reported in Odisha

60-year-old man had returned from abroad on March 10, may have infected several others

COVID-19: Has community transmission begun in India?

Govt denies India in Phase 3 but experts not sure about its claim

COVID-19: Is India testing enough, communicating right?

Criteria for testing still limited; govt using scientific terms wrongly, experts say

India Climate 2019: Arabian Sea saw 400% more cyclones

In 2019, the monsoon season was the warmest in 118 years

More cold on the way for North India post-Christmas: IMD

Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan will be affected

DTE-CSE Report on extreme weather in India

India saw a disaster nearly every day from January-September, 2023

Delayed by decades: Centre-state tussle and red tape withhold compensation for land acquisition in Jharkhand’s coal belt

Many of those who were to be compensated, have become destitute

Cities are central to our future — they have the power to make, or break, society’s advances

Far from making the world flat, globalisation has made it spiky

IISF 2019: Festival concludes, with organisers claiming success

It narrowed the gap between scientists and commoners ever more, they say

Simultaneous quakes rock Kashmir

The first quake happened on February 5 while the second happened the day after

India’s wells are running dry, fast

Hit by weak monsoons, India faces unprecedented water shortages