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 …
Piecing the monsoon puzzle
As scientists understand the monsoon triggers better, they find new drivers for the complex phenomenon
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
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
Simply Put: Delhi deluged
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
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
Why India must conserve its palm trees
The country has a variety of palm trees. But they are diminishing fast
Simply put: Guillotine loom
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
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