Good health, reduction of poverty, hunger rated as today’s top priorities in Ipsos poll

Half of respondents said their government was not doing enough to achieve SDGs

UN praises Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik again for saving lives during Cyclone Yaas

The UN had earlier praised Naveen Patnaik after Cyclone Phailin had hit Odisha in 2013

Is the development of green intellectual property paving the way to environmental sustainability in India?

About 13% of India’s high-value patents are related to green tech

January 2021 ninth-warmest month for US on record: NOAA

Below-average precipitation experienced in several regions; peak ice coverage declined

Coronavirus update: Delhi Metro resumes even as India keeps adding more than 90,000 cases a day

India added 90,802 new cases in the last 24 hours, overtakes Brazil in total case tally

COVID-19: India, 57 other countries demand probe into WHO’s response

Draft resolution tabled for World Health Assembly starting on May 18

COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts

Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said

Farmers want Modi to avoid unfair trade deals with Trump

Expresses concern over possible access of US agri products to Indian markets

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action

The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original

Sino-US trade war: Why China can’t win it

China has no future of becoming a game-changer and a lasting and trusted global leader

Energy in news on June 6

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes southeast of Philippines

Such high-magnitude earthquakes at that depth are rare in the Philippines

Much in a name

Online Review>> Court Verdict • US

Sued for snooping

Telecommunication>> Government Surveillance • US

Real Hunger Games

Film>> Marketing Strategy • US

Rap for ad

Advertisement>> Mountain Dew ÔÇó The US

What gas

Advertisement>> Coke • The US

Crude and wholesome

Whole plant of sweet wormwood more effective than its extract in treating malaria

Proof in the pee

Simple urine test can help identify Kawasaki disease

NASA goofs up

Photo>> Everest • US/Nepal

Indicator of doom

Ecosystems undergo dramatic fluctuations just before collapse

The inside story

How popular tuberculosis drug works

Crust falls apart

2004 megaquake fractured the Indo-Australian plate of Earth

For the record

Quest for life

Will any of the 716 planets discovered outside the solar system be habitable?