With Social Media Fakes Being Rampant, News Verification Is Vital
As news of Palestinian militant group Hamas launching a deadly attack on Israel and Israel’s threat of retaliation began to...
Month: October 2023
More Small Hydel Projects In Hills Has Ministry For Environment Worried
Raising concerns over the increasing number of proposals for smaller hydropower projects with capacities below 5 MW in hill states...
Up Close And Personal With The Fragility Of The Himalayas
Constant manipulation of the slopes for constructing roads and buildings makes them increasingly vulnerable to any natural disaster risk. The...
Even Temporary Global Warming Above 2°C Will Have Impacts
There is growing consensus that our planet is likely to pass the 1.5°C warming threshold. Research even suggests global warming...
Children In Palestine And Israel Suffer As Law Is Routinely Ignored
Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are children. And despite the...
Rolling Car Tires Into Global Circular Economy
More than 1 billion car tires reach the end of their life each year, and dealing with the resulting waste...
Adani Issue: Over Rs 12,000 cr May Have Been Siphoned Off: Congress
On Friday, the Congress alleged that fresh revelations in the Adani issue -- made by a foreign publication -- indicate...
Book On Endemic Birds Says 3 Species Almost Extinct
Seventy-eight out of 1353 bird species in India are endemic to the country; three of them are critically endangered, according...
Russia: Empire Building And Its Economic Cost
President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has come at huge economic costs. By conservative estimates, the Russian economy has taken...
7-Judge SC Bench On Pleas Against Modi Govt Crucial: Congress
On Thursday, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Supreme Court has set up a seven-judge bench headed by CJI...
Delhi’s Air Quality Needs Data-Driven Action
The issue of Delhi's poor air quality resurfaces episodically in the public consciousness. It garners attention on social media, in...
How The Hamas-Israel Conflict Echoes The ’73 Arab-Israeli War
The parallels were striking – and surely not coincidental. Exactly 50 years and a day after being taken completely off...
Fish Suffocate In Kashmir’s Oxygen-Deprived Lakes
On 25 May this year, a large number of dead fish were found floating in Dal Lake in Srinagar, the...
Satellites Show How Climate Change Disrupts Ocean Currents
Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International...
Dwarka E-Way Audit: Cong Attacks Govt Over Transfer Of CAG Officers
On Wednesday, the Congress accused the government of intimidating officers of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). These officers had...
Why Al-Aqsa Mosque Remains A Sensitive Site In Palestine-Israel Conflict
As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a discussion about Al-Aqsa as...
Goldin’s Nobel Win Is A Victory For Women In Economics
Economic history has long been chronicled through a male lens, emphasizing the contributions of men and their viewpoints. For proof,...
Peace Nobel ’23 Highlights Global Fight Against Declining Democracy
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly,...
FIR Against Four AMU Students For Marching In Support Of Hamas
Four students of the Aligarh Muslim University, who took out a march in support of Palestine amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas...
No EWS, Insufficient Dam Safety Turned Sikkim Floods Deadly
Every year, September 18 is observed as a day of disaster risk reduction in Sikkim, in remembrance of the 6.9...
Israel-Hamas Conflict: Both Sides Brace For Devastating Fallout
Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel had failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war...
Young Women And The Chase For An Instagram Beauty Ideal
Young women are bombarded with Instagram images that can define beauty and how they see themselves. While empowering for some,...
The Israel-Hamas War: No Matter Who Loses, Iran Wins
There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group...
Narges: A Voice For Women For Two Decades
“Woman, Life, Freedom,” the slogan adopted by Iranians to protest the unjust death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is, according...
Retiring Coal Plants Early Can Benefit Climate And Communities
As the biggest source of greenhouse gases, how to transition the energy sector from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to green energy...
