Children Starve As Yemen Teeters On A Return To Fighting
(Source: AP) An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered...
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Analysis: Where Is India Spending More, Fossil Fuels Or Renewables?
Is India embracing renewables or fossil fuels? On the one hand, there are the commitments India has made to decarbonise...
‘Animism’: How Animals, Places & Plants Have Power Over Humans
A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining...
Talk Of Respect For Women, But Support For Rapists: Rahul Slams PM
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the remission to the convicts in the Bilkis...
Suu Kyi’s Last Corruption Trial To Go On: Court
A court in military-ruled Myanmar ruled Tuesday that the last trial for corruption of the country's ousted leader Aung San...
Bilkis Bano Case: Convicts’ Release Approved By Union Govt
The Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case were released since...
The Simple Technology That Is Helping Women Escape Poverty
More women than men are poor, more women live with food insecurity, and in the majority of countries in the...
Did You Know That Writer’s Block Has A 5,000-Year History?
Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of non-fiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes...
Indian Teen D Gukesh Beats Magnus Carlsen
(Source: PTI) Indian teenager Grandmaster D Gukesh upset Magnus Carlsen in the ninth round of the preliminary phase of the...
A Look At Deforestation And Clothes Sourced From Plants
Scientists and companies are looking to a small section of the textile market to address the clothing industry’s threats to...
Centre’s Attempts To ‘Impose Hindi’ Divisive: TN CM Stalin
(Source: PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday staunchly opposed what he called a Parliamentary panel's "recommendation"...
India Ranks 107 On GHI ’22, Records Highest Child Wasting Rate
(Source: PTI) India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022 with its child wasting rate...
Wild Cats At Risk From ‘Underrecognized’ Risk Of Spillover Disease
Starting in 2020, the global coronavirus pandemic brought the threat posed by zoonotic diseases into sharp focus in the public...
90% Of Media Leadership Positions With Upper Caste Groups: Report
(Source: PTI) About 90 per cent of leadership positions in Indian media are occupied by upper caste groups with not...
School Dropouts At ‘All-Time High’ In Climate Change-Hit Ganga Delta
Banani Deb looks wistfully at her old notebooks from 10th grade and reminisces about her school days. This year, the...
Stubble Burning Is Back, Smothering The North
Even as authorities claim that they are all set to deal with what is now an annual public health crisis,...
Court’s No To Carbon Dating Of ‘Shivling’
(Source: PTI) A Varanasi court on Friday rejected a petition seeking carbon dating of the purported 'Shivling' found in the...
Ben There, Done That: A Nobel Conundrum
Earlier this week, an announcement in the news sphere took me completely by surprise. It was that Ben Bernanke, former...
Hijab Ban: How Two SC Judges Differed In Final Verdict & What It Means
(Source: PTI) Two judges on a Supreme Court bench on Thursday delivered opposing verdicts in the hijab controversy, and asked...
‘Deep Journalism’, Better Govt And How They Are Linked
Deep learning, big data and other new technologies are set to transform the way governments determine what is in the...
Climate Risk Index Study Shows Threats To 90% Of World’s Marine Species
Climate change impacts marine life through a bewildering web of complex pathways. Warming oceans and climate extremes are driving species...
NZ Proposes Taxing Cow Burps, Farmers Miffed
(Source: AP) New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing...
What Does DNA Say About The Future Of The Rhino In India?
A majestic and charismatic mega-herbivore, the one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) now numbers around 4,034 individuals found only in the grasslands...
To Limit Clay Mining, Pune Recycles Clay From Ganesha Idols
Dinesh Gole is an artisan working from Pen, a small town, around 110 kilometres away from Pune in Maharashtra, where...
Explainer: What Is Greenwashing?
Greenwashing refers to “the practice of making products, activities, or policies seem more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than...
