Cold waves killed more Indians than heat waves since 1980: IMD

There has also been a 506% increase in the number of cold waves in India in this decade

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

Just how harmful is air pollution and how bad is India placed

In India, life expectancy dropped by 3.86 years in 2015 due to air pollution

Simply Put: Data govt takes, data govt offers

Can India’s emergency response to Covid-19 be more systematic?

Incident Response System is an emergency response management system ideally suited for an extraordinary situation as being seen now

Swachh Bharat Mission: another futile toilet chase?

Swachh Bharat Mission is blindly chasing toilets-a private good and not behavioural change – a public good essential to secure sanitation

Rainfall expected in many states of India

An upper air trough to bring first widespread rainfall event of this winter season

Is Bhilwara Rajasthan’s COVID-19 hotspot?

A large number of people had returned to the town from abroad recently, according to accounts

Heatwave over north, central India abating, says private forecaster

Temperatures to fall after rising marginally in the next two days

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Simply Put: Passing the hoops

Simply Put: Religion and elections

Simply Put: COVID-19 and India's poor

COVID-19: What exactly is community transmission?

It is the third phase of a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization

In 5 graphs: How Monsoon 2021 is turning out to be an unusual one

Officially, it is still a normal monsoon but deficit level has been rising since July

COVID-19: Centre tells SC 30% migrants on move may have virus

‘We would quarantine them at shelter homes to prevent large-scale contagion’

‘North Atlantic Oscillation may have played a role in this time's cold wave’

Down To Earth speaks to IMD scientist Rajendra Kumar Jenamani about why temperatures dipped so much this winter in spite of its prediction to the …

As northwest India endures unusual dust storms, northeast gets flooded before monsoon arrives

The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland

Simply Put: United by waste

Sabhas we listen to

On the 30th year of Panchayati Raj, the rise of the Gram Sabha holds the hope of making local-government accountable  

Simply Put: Unemployment status

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  

FLOOD FACTSHEET: Monsoon may be on a break, not deluge

How floods have affected India by in the first half of 2021

Simply Put: India's invisible poor

Simply Put: The poor's COVID-19 quandary