Mumbai’s urban railway farms

Vegetable fields along railway tracks keep encroachers at bay; provides city residents with farm-fresh produce

Drinking water scarce in Kumbh city

Health authorities say they are receiving large number of patients suffering from stomach ailments, diarrheoa

PMO issues directives to reduce pollution load on Yamuna

Delhi government asked to ensure sewage and effluent treatment plants meet effluent quality norms

Rohana’s healer of maladies

Meet Jaganath Singh who has been treating farm animals with herbs and plants for the past 80 years

Madhya Pradesh government cracks down on Indira Sagar dam oustees

They were staging jal satyagraha to demand land compensation and reduction in reservoir water level

Jal Satyagraha forces Madhya Pradesh government to relent

People affected by Omkareshwar dam to get land in lieu of land; water level of reservoir reduced

India’s Child Development Index ranking drops

Is placed along with countries like Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao

Goa's Regional Plan 2021 suspended

Manohar Parrikar orders cancellation of permissions granted to new projects under the plan

Bombay HC for phthalates standards in toys

CSE study showed over 45 per cent toys in India have more than acceptable limits of the chemical

Delhi High Court questions Centre on junk food

Asks it to file affidavit in six weeks on whether it has framed policy to ban it in schools

Scientists solve mystery of milky rain

Dust plume from dry lake in Oregon behind the rare phenomenon

Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto on Oxford University Press ban over mention of pigs

GreenPHABLET developed to help small holder farmers

It provides farmers with services to improve productivity and find better prices

Another 5,700 villages on Maharashtra’s drought list

Twice as many villages as in 2012 affected this time

Loss of Arctic ice forcing walruses to take shelter on shores

35,000 walruses were seen resting on a sea shore in northwest Alaska

Latin America in grip of chikungunya

Around a million people are reported to have been infected with disease in 34 countries

Indus dolphins on the decline

Water extraction for irrigation one of the prime reasons for the decline, says study

Electoral power of women

The drying pens of calligraphy

As digital calligraphy becomes popular, traditional calligraphy artists who write by hand are facing diminishing prospects for their livelihood

Eastern cougar extinct, says US conservation agency

The eastern cougar, a subspecies of the North American cougar, has likely been extinct for at least 70 years. It was last sighted and hunted …

Civil society groups urge Australia to adopt zero-carbon emission target by 2050

The country is the thirteenth largest emitter in the world, with one of the highest per capita emissions

Nearly 80 per cent people 'very concerned' about climate change

Over 45 per cent respondents want an end to all exploration of fossil fuel reserves, says a study

World’s ‘model diet’ under threat from lifestyle changes, globalisation

A study shows that people in the Mediterranean region are shying away from fruits and legumes and digging more into meat and dairy products

Large-scale hunting pushes yellow-breasted Bunting towards extinction

Known in Chinese as the ‘rice bird’, the Bunting is considered a delicacy in China and Cambodia

El Niño to hit Australia later this year, says Bureau of Meteorology

The phenomenon is associated with below-average winter and spring rainfall in eastern Australia, and above-average daytime temperatures over the …