“We are independent from Lantana’s fury,” beams Basant Jharia, a local community member in Central India, a region overwhelmed by…
On Wednesday, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram raised questions over the Modi-led Central government's handling of the situation in Manipur…
India’s position on regulating AI has swung between extremes – from no regulation to regulation based on a “risk-based, no-harm”…
A controversial low-budget Indian feature film The Kerala Story, about a discredited anti-Muslim conspiracy theory, has been causing a political…
Andhra Pradesh’s Community-Based Natural Farming (APCNF) defies the popular belief that chemical fertilisers guarantee better yields. According to a comparative…
On Monday, the Congress accused the government of insulting Parliament by its refusal to hold a discussion on the no-confidence…
In June 2023, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced Monica P. Medina as its new President and CEO. Medina is…
The Lok Sabha passed the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, which proposes to fast-track the patent application process and encourage foreign…
The draft Green Credit Programme Rules notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is part of…
A Bill proposing radical changes to India’s forest law came closer to becoming legislation on July 26, when it was…
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the…
Owing to a crippling funding crisis, the United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to…
Rising population and demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel are increasing competition for land. For example, new WRI research projects that…
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said…
The past few days have shown just how unsafe women are in our country. Given below are some examples that…
The 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup is probably the most highly-anticipated women’s football tournament ever. Part of this hype and…
What do Taylor Swift, Jackie Chan, Adolf Hitler and several Nobel Peace laureates all have in common? Over the past…
A 28-year-old man in the United Arab Emirates has been diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according…
When the Earth Commission released its third paper on earth system boundaries in 2023, one element stood out as distinct…
To non-moguls, Elon Musk’s (perhaps temporary) rebrand of Twitter to “X” may seem high risk, amateurish, or even capricious. But…
The April heat wave in South and Southeast Asia this year was detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, noted a…
In a shocking development, the Gyanvapi mosque management committee has apprehended that the historic structure may fall during the survey…
Israel’s parliament passed a law on July 24, 2023, that limits the Supreme Court’s ability to rein in government actions,…
On 26 July, 2023, the lower house of the Indian parliament, amidst protests, passed a Bill to amend the country’s…
Throughout the weekend, Indian-Americans and allied entities held protests in the US states of California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, to…
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