Environmental Issues Have Been Underrepresented In WB Elections
West Bengal’s 294 constituencies are voting in two phases, with counting set for May 4. Despite several environmental concerns, these...
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Latest Attack On Trump Reflects Rising Political Violence In US
For the third time in three years, Donald Trump has come under threat by an attacker. Many facts remain unclear...
Scorcher! 95 Out Of The World’s 100 Hottest Cities Are In India
India has emerged as the epicentre of an intense global heat surge, with a staggering 95 of the world’s 100...
Mahakumbh 2025 Holds Lessons In Solving India’s Waste Crisis
Mahakumbh 2025 made headlines last year as the largest human gathering on Earth. Hosting nearly 660 million people over six weeks, this spectacle...
Democracy Meets Extreme Heat: Elections In A Warming Climate
On 13 February, 37-year-old Suraj stood for nearly four hours in open ground in Salem, Tamil Nadu, waiting to hear...
Centre Pushing ‘Fake Narrative’ On Bengal Poll Turnout: TMC’s O’Brien
Senior leader of the All India Trinamool Congress, Derek O'Brien, on Friday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of attempting...
Mumbai Fishers Raise Alarm Over Plight Of 45,000+ Mangroves
Just before dawn, small fishing boats sail into the creeks dotting Mumbai’s coastline. By mid-morning, the catch will be sorted,...
“BJP Gets ‘Double Failure’ On Fuel And Fertiliser Security In India”
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday launched a sharp and sustained attack on the Union government, accusing it of presiding...
Is Donald Trump Heading Towards A Pyrrhic Victory In Iran?
President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite killing...
India Signals Shift In Climate Priorities Amid Global Uncertainty
India has withdrawn its bid to host COP33 scheduled in 2028. In the absence of an official explanation, experts link...
Pak’s ‘Renewed Respectability’ A Foreign Policy Failure: Congress
On the first anniversary of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian National Congress on Wednesday launched a sharp and...
The End Of Oil? 53 Nations Gather To Plan A Fossil Fuel Phaseout
US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy...
Long Coastlines, Zero Turbines: India’s Stranded Offshore Wind
India has one of the world’s longest coastlines, some of the most ambitious renewable energy targets, and a looming net...
What Pappu Yadav’s Vile Remarks Reveal About Women In Politics
The recent comments by Pappu Yadav about women in Indian politics are not merely “controversial” or “objectionable”—they are a stark...
Book Review: The Wilderness Story Of A Bustling, Expanding Capital
Enchantingly written and filled with delightful anecdotes, Neha Sinha’s latest book on Delhi’s wild denizens is an ode to the...
AI Readiness – Women Don’t Just Use Systems. They Build Them Too
Conversations on women and AI often begin with representation and, in many cases, end there. As UNESCO notes in “Cracking...
‘(The Real) Issue Was Not Women’s Reservation But Modi Preservation’
The Congress on Monday sharpened its attack on the Centre following the defeat of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill in...
What Iran’s Resilience Shows About Decentralisation, Collective Action
As the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States deepens, there’s increasing clarity on the manner in which Iran...
Whose Water Is AI Drinking In India?
Every tech giant in the world is interested in building AI data centres in India. Late last year, Microsoft, Amazon...
A Generation Strives To Revive Traditional Healing
Traditional healers among the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Karen community have declined sharply, and efforts to revive plant-based healing are...
When Recycling Plastic Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Many of the approaches promoted to address plastic pollution rely heavily on capital and energy intensive technologies that have repeatedly...
‘Women’s Quota Is Anti-Women, Anti-Caste Census & Anti-Federal’
Assam Congress MP and Lok Sabha deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi launched a sharp attack on the Modi government while opening...
4 Ways The Iran War Has Weakened The US In The Great Power Game
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim may well have been in the minds...
Human Rights And Rights Of Nature Must For Truly Sustainable Development
United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the...
“‘Misleader’ PM Modi Engaged In ‘Deliberate Deceit’ On Delimitation”
The Congress has mounted a sharp attack on the Centre over the proposed delimitation and women’s reservation bills, accusing Prime...