Millions Go Unaccounted For In India’s Invisible Slum Crisis
Across India’s bustling cities, a crisis of staggering proportions is unfolding, largely unseen and uncared…
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Schools Feel The Heat As Closures Rise Due To Extreme Weather Events
Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last…
Our Clean Energy Transition Needs A Delicate Balancing Act
India aspires to be a developed nation by 2047 with inclusive, people-centric sustainable growth and…
Four Obstacles To India Joining UNSC
Indian politicians have argued for decades that the nation deserves to be a member of…
Kashmir’s High-Stakes Polls For A Low-Power Assembly
In one sense, not very much is at stake in the ongoing election to the…
Even The UN Is Struggling To Meet Its Gender Parity Goals
The UN’s leadership still lacks gender balance, with only a fraction of member states appointing…
Urban Expansion Drives Forest Loss In India’s Biodiversity Hotspots
Urban expansion and land use changes in the Himalayas and the Western Ghats are driving…
Reforms That Could Renew The UN’s Purpose & Power
The United Nations rests on three equally important and interdependent pillars: sustainable development, peace and…
Women Leading The Green Charge
Inspiring women are driving sustainable solutions and empowering communities, showcasing their potential to shape a…
India Yet To Jump On The Global Green Goods Boom Bandwagon
Embracing green trade could accelerate India’s export diversification and growth as global demand for low-carbon…
Is The Jammu and Kashmir Election A Quest For Political Agency?
In the run-up to its first assembly election in 10 years, Jammu and Kashmir is…
Death Penalty Not The Whole Answer To Rape
The West Bengal legislative assembly recently voted unanimously to alter the punishment for rape by…
Pollution Dips, But Fine Particulate Matter Still Top Public Health Threat
India’s particulate pollution slightly dropped in one year, between 2021 and 2022. Despite this decline,…
2nd Attempt On Trump’s Life Is Shocking, But…
Former President Donald Trump survived his second assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024, marking the…
What’s At Stake As Kashmir Goes To The Polls
The Indian government will have to take a considered view on doing more than statehood…
Modern Slavery Rife In ‘Last Frontier’ At Sea
Sustained pressure, from governments to seafood shopping consumers, could help end the suffering of migrant…
Terrorism Has Evolved… Are We Keeping Up?
Today’s terrorism is fragmented and flexible. New counterterrorism strategies must adapt by focusing on effects,…
Tea Gardens Can Aid In Landscape Preservation
Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills situated in the eastern Himalayas are part of a biodiversity hotspot…
The Importance Of Mapping Forest Resources
Plant ecologist Purabi Saikia is one of this year’s Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar winners Mapping forest…
How Kashmir’s Parties Are United In Agenda But Divided By Politics
As Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) goes to the polls, there is just one pre-electoral alliance…
Why Netanyahu Chooses War Over Peace
War-weary and angry, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are taking to the streets week after…
Lessons About 9/11 Often Provoke Harassment Of Muslim Students
Near the start of each school year, many U.S. schools wrestle with how to teach…
‘Op Bhediya’ Reveals Gaps In Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation
Wild animals, presumed to be wolves, have attacked people in an Uttar Pradesh district, causing…
Why ‘Pronatalist’ Politicians Want Women To Have More Babies
JD Vance has long been concerned with declining fertility rates. From decrying “childless cat ladies”…
New Urban Governance Bill In B’luru Faces Flak
The recently tabled Greater Bengaluru Governance Bill proposes to split the municipal corporation into smaller…