Plunging reservoir levels across India a worrying sign

The water level in 91 major reservoirs across the country as on April 13 stood at just 35.839 billion cubic metres as against 253.388 

Only 21% live storage left in country's 91 reservoirs, reveals CWC report

Thirteen reservoirs have less than 20 per cent storage with respect to last year

One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians

We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price

World’s life expectancy up but gains uneven finds World Health Statistics 2016

A child born in a high income country is expected to live till 80 but life expectancy in sub- Saharan Africa is less than 60 years

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

Book on pulses takes readers on amazing journey across varied cultures

Pulses are packed with proteins–double than that found in wheat and three times than that in rice

Good news: Delhi no longer 'world’s most polluted city'

Indian capital now ranked No. 11 in WHO’s air pollution database

Every hour, a farmer committed suicide in 2015

87 per cent of total number of suicides were reported from well-off states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,…

Here is how PC Mahalanobis dabbled with computing in the early 20th century

The founder of the discipline of statistics in India also had a pioneering role to play in nurturing another branch of science

COVID-19: Curves that matter

Projected paths of the pandemic

COVID-19: Govt presents studies on past ‘gains’ but silent on future

ICMR expands HCQ usage for COVID; claims Indian studies found positive results