(Source: PTI) The hearing on Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case…
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is mulling permanently stationing specialised mountaineering teams in the higher reaches of the Himalayas…
(Source: PTI) Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of…
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it…
Ram Sagar, 64, a farmer who lives in Turkauli village of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh, lost three and a…
(Source: AP) Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests that…
(Source: PTI) Kashmir has "almost totally mainstreamed", with Pakistan out of Kashmiri minds and separatism and the Hurriyat "all finished",…
(Source: PTI) Amidst the fanfare over RSS' plans to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birth anniversary in Kolkata on January…
(Source: PTI) The UN has apologised for "a significant lapse in judgement" after photographs surfaced of some of its personnel…
(Source: PTI) The BJP government has successfully reduced Parliament to a "notice board and a rubber stamp", Congress MP Shashi…
China's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years and is set to be reduced by half by…
(Source: PTI) The BBC on Friday defended its controversial series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “rigorously researched” documentary…
Each week, as Thursday draws to a close and Friday approaches, I do a quick mental recap of topics that…
In August 2022, India announced two enhanced climate pledges within an updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) – the commitments each…
Seeing might not be believing going forward as digital technologies make the fight against misinformation even trickier for embattled social…
(Source: PTI) The hotel owner, the shopkeeper, the laundry owner, the roadside vendor... Hundreds of people watch in dismay as…
Writing is not only about nobility and bravery but about the “ordinary mundane business" of keeping alive what is important,…
Governments around the world are introducing single-use plastic product bans to alleviate pollution. Zimbabwe banned plastic packaging and bottles as…
Wildfires and flash floods are two of the most visible symptoms of climate change across the Himalayas. The two phenomena…
(Source: PTI) Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an…
In December 2022, the world’s governments agreed on a set of actions to address the rapid disappearance of wild plants…
(Source: PTI) Joshimath is a town on the edge. It’s the very precipice for thousands of people, despairing as the…
(Source: AP) Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge…
The National Capital of Delhi’s last Solar Policy in 2016 had announced a target of around 1,000 Megawatt (MW) of…
(Source: PTI) Gender neutral uniforms in schools, transgender inclusive curriculum, safe washroom facilities and measures to prevent gender based violence…
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