UN highlights importance of water in maintaining global peace
Stresses the need for better water management techniques worldwide
Women’s Day 2024: Strength of a collective in a not-so-silent revolution
Kishori dals or girls’ collective that began in Odisha village is helping ensure girls’ rights
World elephant day: Recent killings show Odisha’s elephants live in constant danger
The elephant mortality rate has gone up alarmingly: The average deaths per year was 33 in 1990-2000, 46 in 2001-2010 and 76 since 2010.
Water in age of climate change
We now need to be more than obsessive about water and its management as it is the basis of health and wealth
World Tourism Day: COVID -19 an opportunity to rethink Himalayan tourism
This September 27, it is time to turn the pandemic into an opportunity by looking at tourism in a different light and redesigning the current …
World No-Tobacco Day: ICMR calls for ban on e-cigarettes
In a white paper released on May 31, the council noted that e-cigarettes and other such devices contained not only nicotine solution, which was …
WHO should take a holistic view
Though the global health organisation talks about chemical residues in food, it has not put special emphasis on pesticides. It is also silent on …
World Health Day to focus on food safety this year
About 306 outbreaks of food poisoning and 344 outbreaks of diarrhoea were reported between 2011 and 2014
WHO releases first-of-its-kind patient safety rights charter ahead of Patient Safety Day
Outlines core rights of all patients in the context of safety of health care
As told to Parliament: Assam, Bihar, Odisha get flood hazard atlases
All that was discussed in the Houses through the day
WHO presents manual for countries to eliminate malaria
It subdivides countries for better assessment of their achievements
Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh
Cape Town ‘Day Zero’ drought risk lurking around the corner: Study
South African cities should prepare themselves for similar drought conditions, warned the study
Poverty is ecological: We must accept income poverty is the wrong yardstick
Today, October 17, 2020, we observe the 27th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time when the COVID-19 …
India’s sanitation economy to double by 2021
It would be worth $62 billion in three years and the credit would go to Swachh Bharat Mission, say speakers at 18th World Toilet Summit
Africa needs to strategise actions for ‘sustainable industrialisation', says UN chief
Agriculture still accounts for the major share of rural household income and employs over 60 per cent of Africa's labour force
The silent killer
Symptoms of hypertension rarely show, and an increasing number of children, adolescents across India are falling victim to it
Independence Day 2020: Learning under the shadows of COVID-19
Why education is all the more important in disastrous times
Access Denied
Narmada crusader says the space for mass movements on water is shrinking
The first International Day of Zero Waste: UN draws focus on myriad impacts of garbage
By treating nature like a dumping ground, we are digging our own graves, says UN chief António Guterres
World Cities Day: How humans and robots can co-exist in cities
Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities but create more challenges for policymakers
Jobs round the year: How MGNREGA made Balangir job-secure
The success of MGNREGA projects has made Odisha offer 300 days of guaranteed work a year to curb distress migration in this district
COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash
There is no inevitable link between oil prices and carbon emissions, a lot depends on responsible policy
‘Need to be accompanied biggest reason for girl student drop outs’
New study says 90 per cent of over 3,000 girls in 1,604 households across four states claimed this to be the reason
"Pre-Independence India did better conservation"
M K Ranjitsinh has been involved in conservation for more than 40 years. Rajat Ghai speaks to him about his latest book, A Life with Wildlife: …