Riding the wind
Wind energy promises a refreshing breather, providing a low-cost and ecofriendly alternative
Blueprints for change
The sun in your kitchen
Virtually inexhaustible solar energy could be the cheapest cooking fuel the world has known
Choking the gene pool
Idukki becomes first district in India to get high-speed rural broadband connectivity
National Optic Fibre Network will connect all 250,000 gram panchayats of India by 2016
Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists
Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006
Not so sweet: Honey production falls 40% in Bihar
Researchers have attributed the fall to erratic weather conditions in the state
UK university academic is lending expertise to cut India’s snakebite deaths
With 50,000 deaths per year from snakebites, India has the world's highest burden
CoP26: A ‘net nothing’ summit that the UN termed a global compromise
Glasgow failed to respond to climate urgency and betrayed the poor, claim activists
5G: A dangerous generation
Radiation fears mount as the world gets ready to embrace the network-intensive 5G
Major past earthquakes in Nepal
Present earthquake the biggest to hit Nepal in 80 years
Vaccine woes continue
Chemists in Delhi to go on strike on March 15
Proposed drug pricing policy lowers their commission
National body to formulate standards for forest certification
Forest departments, however, may be reluctant to subject government forests to scrutiny
Parties to Stockholm Convention endorse agroecology as the best alternative to endosulfan
Pesticide’s use restricted to limited number of crops
Humans exhaust this year’s quota of natural resources
International report shows our demand is way beyond what Earth can provide
Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list
120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport
China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum
Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000
Huge disparity found in livestock census and NSSO data
This has happened in past surveys also, say experts
Hong Kong shows improvement in air quality
Catalytic converters in vehicles bring down emission levels
Call for policy to check drug abuse, overuse
Public health experts suggest ways to curb drug resistance
Clinical drug trials: registration of contract research organisations put on hold
Absence of regulatory infrastructure to assess them cited as reason
Planning Commission push to health care privatisation
Draft 12th Five Year Plan proposes contracting-in and PPP in public health services
UN climate talks: little progress in first week
No consensus on Green Climate Fund, loss and damage arising from climate change impacts
How well are funds spent on sanctuaries and zoos
Central Information Commission wants a impact assessment report by November