Book Excerpt: Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia
In Forgotten Foods, historians, literary scholars, plant scientists, heritage practitioners, writers and chefs come together to document …
Simply Put: Great GDP Race
Why is Telangana asking the Centre to procure its excess stock of parboiled rice?
The Telangana government is asking the Centre to buy more than 90 per cent of its stock of parboiled rice at Minimum Support Price, some of which …
New drought monitoring tool gives hope of better preparation, mitigation at farmer level
State-level workshops will be conducted to help users interpret data from the system
Panthera Tigris: The puzzle that is tiger taxonomy
The jury is still out on how many types of tiger are found across Asia
South Asia
Kolkata, Karachi to face increased threat of heatwaves, warns IPCC report
The report adds that megacities across the globe could become more heat-stressed by 2050
Lok Sabha passes Women’s Reservation Bill with two-thirds majority
Opposition leaders have flagged concerns about the timing of the bill’s passage as well as its eventual transition to the status of law
From the blurbs
South Asia has lost most human capital due to air pollution: World Bank
World Bank releases the Changing Wealth of Nations report that says environmental degradation is leading to a decline in overall wealth
Report on South Asian poverty argues for growth with justice
The SAAPE report points out that there is a growing marginalisation and destitution of people in the South Asian region
Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hits Tripura; tremors felt in Assam, Bangladesh
The tremors caused by a shallow earthquake lasted for about a minute
‘Sundarbans is no dumping ground for rejected technology’
The Rampal power plant threatens the biological wealth of Sundarbans as well as the economy of people of Bangladesh and will render the coastline …
India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet
Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries
The importance (and baggage) of ghee
The social standing of ghee is heavier than the health one
What does Sustainable Development mean in an unequal world?
Reflections from the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development
A tough year for the scribe
Girls less physically active than boys due to societal factors: Study
The research also found that 80% of school-going adolescents do not do the recommended one hour of daily physical activity
'Both, solid waste and faecal sludge must be tackled for clean cities'
The policy advocacy head of international non-profit WaterAid’s Bangladesh unit, Abdullah Al Muyeed talks to Rashmi Verma about how a small …
Bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh; two separate cases reported
More than 700 Sonali breed birds died after highly contagious H5N1 virus was discovered near Dhaka
Seismic activity has gone through the roof in last two months
Since December 2, 2016, there have been around 420 earthquakes of magnitude over 5 along all major continental plate boundaries
Childhood stunting affects future success in life, say experts
According to a study, stunting causes physical and neurocognitive damage that is irreversible in most cases
New study shows over a third of protected areas in Asia are severely at risk of losing tigers
Southeast Asia more likely to lose tigers than South or East Asia, it says