Feel-good, voluntary pledges have dominated the first week of the COP28 UN climate negotiations happening now in Dubai, with host…
The issue of climate finance and loss and damage funds are taking centre stage at the ongoing climate conference in…
Prakash Ambedkar, president of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) warned on Tuesday that the parliamentary system in India is in…
Several world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have used COP28 as a platform to appeal for peace in Palestine…
Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United…
Almost 150 years ago, Christmas, aboard the SMS Gazelle, a mid-sized German warship that circumnavigated the globe in the late…
The recently-released Climate India 2023 report by Down to Earth paints a grim picture of the nation grappling with extreme…
After Israel declared war on Hamas following the militant group’s surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and hostilities resumed in…
Mountainous regions such as the Hindu Kush Himalayas are facing severe consequences from climate change. Scientists are calling for more…
Slamming the Centre on December 2 over the UGC asking universities and colleges to set up selfie points to highlight…
A landmark declaration on agriculture, food and climate action was signed by 134 countries for the first time in global…
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it’s more…
A team of researchers from India and Japan have found water droplets trapped in mineral deposits in the Kumaon mountains…
The murder of a young woman named Lilie James in the toilet block of a Sydney school by her former…
The Indian crested porcupine, a protected species, is entering saffron fields in Jammu and Kashmir and damaging the crop. Experts…
The results of the five state elections underway in India will be known in a few hours and the next…
Several years ago, I made a visit to a local book sale and came across a rare 1964 edition of…
The state of West Bengal often hits national headlines, mainly for controversial reasons. However, there is one area in which…
The first day of COP28 climate conference reached a consensus to operationalise the Loss and Damage Fund, a crucial milestone.…
The UN has tried tackling conflict-related sexual violence for more than two decades, but its “add-women-and-stir” approach doesn’t go far…
In mid-November, hundreds of protestors marched through the streets of Nairobi, led by a ceremonial band. “Let polluters pay the…
On Friday, the Supreme Court extended the interim protection from arrest it had granted to four journalists against whom the…
Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023, at age 100, exercised more than 50 years of influence on American…
As government leaders and climate negotiators gather in Dubai for the COP28 United Nations climate conference, an enormous challenge looms…
The Supreme Court of India is poised to deliver a landmark judgement that may make it a crime for a…
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