Industry Pushes For Reinstatement Of Amnesty For Environmental Violations
The Supreme Court’s interim stay on the environment ministry’s Environmental Impact Assessment violation procedures last year prompted influential industry groups...
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Pahalgam Attack Reflects Modi Government’s Failure: Akhilesh Yadav
On Sunday, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav held a press conference where he attributed the recent terror attack in Pahalgam...
Tensions Over Kashmir Place The Indus Waters Treaty On Life Support
In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been...
Digging Into Icy Depths To Better Understand Glacial Melt
A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers...
Activist Medha Patkar Arrested In Defamation Case By Delhi L-G
Activist Medha Patkar was arrested by the Delhi Police on Friday following the issuance of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against...
Memes & Conflict: Surge Of Fakes Can Precede Intn’l & Political Violence
Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, imagine...
Bengaluru Battles A Deepening Water Crisis
Rapid urbanisation, encroachment, and poor governance have led to the degradation of Bengaluru’s lakes, once important for water storage and...
Pahalgam: ‘Where Is Our Intel?’ Cong Highlights Lapses In Security
In the wake of the tragic terror attack in Pahalgam, the Congress party has voiced significant concerns regarding security lapses...
Wildfires Rage Amid Dry Weather & Heat Waves
The increasing number of wildfires in north and central India are degrading forests, threatening biodiversity, and accelerating desertification, scientists note....
Inequalities Of Caste And Contract In Sewage Work In Delhi-NCR
In October 2024, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), India’s largest sanitation project to make the country ‘open defecation-free’, turned ten. The...
‘Not In My Name’: Kashmiris Flood The Streets, Condemn Pahalgam Attack
"Not in my name." This was the clear message resonating across Kashmir on April 23, Wednesday, as people took to...
Counting India’s Poor: Here’s Why Celebrations May Be Premature
Poverty estimates have long been a political battleground in India. The recent Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) findings have been critiqued...
Setting Sail Towards Carbon Accountability
The International Maritime Organization has approved a framework requiring ships to pay for carbon emissions, starting 2028. The framework sets...
Water For Peace: The Ganga Water Treaty
The Ganga Water Treaty is crucial to India-Bangladesh relations because it guarantees a systematic process for water sharing between the...
Assess Glass Industry Impact On Taj Mahal: SC To NEERI
On April 22, the Supreme Court of India took a significant step towards protecting the Taj Mahal by directing the...
Explainer: What Is Heat Stress?
Frequent and prolonged heat waves can adversely affect animals due to heat stress resulting in illness and casualty. Studies have...
‘For Some People, Religious Identities Staple To Forward Hateful Politics’
On April 21, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi responded strongly to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's derogatory remarks, which labeled...
Is India Ready For A Healthcare Revolution?
We are at the cusp of a healthcare revolution — Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools can use patient histories, genetics and...
B’desh’s Yunus’ Chinese Checkers Game Has India On The Edge
The ouster of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 and the establishment of an interim government under the leadership of Muhammad...
Caught Between A Dam And A Hard Place
China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra have renewed the Indian government’s interest...
India’s Ascent In A Tariff-Stricken World
US President Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” salvo of tariffs has roiled the world and, despite subsequent announcements of...
India’s Forests Are Disappearing, Just Not On Paper It Seems
On the afternoon of March 30, bulldozers rolled into Kancha Gachibowli, a lush, 400-acre tract of forested land in Hyderabad,...
Rajasthan’s Farming Families Are Being Pushed Into Debt, Distress, Migration
Rajasthan is one of India’s top users of groundwater for irrigation, mainly because of water-intensive crops like wheat, even though...
Can Muslims Be Part Of Hindu Religious Trusts, SC Asks Centre
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of India engaged in a significant discussion regarding the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment)...
Trump’s Tariff Threats Could Be Opportunity For India’s Services Sector
The global war of words that was sparked by US President Donald Trump is threatening to turn into an all-out...
