In the vast saffron-growing land of Pampore, a national highway (NH44) cuts through the middle. Ishfaq Ahmad, a saffron grower,…
In many ways, Kolkata is a victim of its own success. Such has been the population growth in India’s ‘first…
(Source: PTI) Ahead of the Union Budget, the CPI(M) has alleged the Indian economy is yet to revive from the…
Four oil and gas pipelines being laid through protected forests in Assam could be “disastrous” for wildlife, environmentalists have told…
Kush Sethi does not remember the day, but he remembers the exact moment when he started paying attention to urban…
Recently, news has come in that a 'most modern' private Sainik School will be opened in Madhya Pradesh by Vidya…
(Source: IANS) With more Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google joining the ongoing layoff season, about 3,000 tech employees…
(Source: PTI) A war veteran doctor, who has been treating underprivileged people for five decades, two expert snake catchers and…
The coalfields around Asansol, 210 km northwest of Kolkata in West Bengal have provided a way of life for workers…
(Source: PTI) Well-known US activist investor Hindenburg Research has alleged that the Adani Group was "engaged in a brazen stock…
Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is approaching its first anniversary. The war being fought by Russian forces today…
(Source: PTI) Several students, who gathered at the JNU students' union office for a screening of a controversial BBC documentary…
The water-loving evergreen tree, hijol, adapted to floodplains, has been traditionally managed over millennia as family and community forest in the…
(Source: PTI) The hearing on Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case…
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is mulling permanently stationing specialised mountaineering teams in the higher reaches of the Himalayas…
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it…
Ram Sagar, 64, a farmer who lives in Turkauli village of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh, lost three and a…
(Source: AP) Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests that…
(Source: PTI) Kashmir has "almost totally mainstreamed", with Pakistan out of Kashmiri minds and separatism and the Hurriyat "all finished",…
(Source: PTI) Amidst the fanfare over RSS' plans to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birth anniversary in Kolkata on January…
(Source: PTI) The UN has apologised for "a significant lapse in judgement" after photographs surfaced of some of its personnel…
(Source: PTI) The BJP government has successfully reduced Parliament to a "notice board and a rubber stamp", Congress MP Shashi…
China's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years and is set to be reduced by half by…
(Source: PTI) The BBC on Friday defended its controversial series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “rigorously researched” documentary…
Each week, as Thursday draws to a close and Friday approaches, I do a quick mental recap of topics that…
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