EU nations can ban GM crops, says EU environment panel

Will this move set the precedent for GM-free food production in the world?

Sikkim earthquake was unusual for Himalaya

It occurred due to sliding, not thrust motion

COVID-19: More than thousand Nepalese migrants stranded in India during harvest time

All the migrants have only one request for authorities in Nepal: To arrange for them an entrance to their home country

Science and Technology - Briefs

South Asia

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

SOUTH ASIA

Asia-Pacific agreement on net fishing

South Asia

South Asia

South Asian nations will now cooperate to save the vulture

Most rapid decline in vulture populations recorded in Asia

South Asia

Letters

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …