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 …

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

Dry run

Book Excerpt: A guide to the Peninsula’s indigenous floral wealth

Many in southern India are unaware that the region hosted and still hosts unique botanical life

Aerosols increase drought severity over the Indian subcontinent

El Niño weakens the monsoon by transporting aerosols from lower altitudes in East Asian region up and into the higher altitudes, finds a …

Not just Indo-Gangetic Plains, severe winter air pollution affects central India too: CSE

Singrauli and Gwalior have the most polluted air in central India, according to a CSE analysis

Monsoon update: Northeastern states report deficit rainfall

Three weeks into the monsoon, 72% meteorological divisions have had normal and above normal rainfall