US Firm Alleges ‘Brazen’ Fraud By Adani, Who Calls It Malicious
(Source: PTI) Well-known US activist investor Hindenburg Research has alleged that the Adani Group was "engaged in a brazen stock...
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Why Ukraine War Today Is So Different From A Year Ago
Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is approaching its first anniversary. The war being fought by Russian forces today...
No Screening Of BBC Docu At JNU As Power, Internet Cut
(Source: PTI) Several students, who gathered at the JNU students' union office for a screening of a controversial BBC documentary...
Shielding The Hijol From Climate Impacts
The water-loving evergreen tree, hijol, adapted to floodplains, has been traditionally managed over millennia as family and community forest in the...
Bilkis Bano’s Plea Against Convicts’ Remission Could Not Be Heard In SC
(Source: PTI) The hearing on Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case...
NDRF To Station Permanent Teams In Hills For Rescue Operations
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is mulling permanently stationing specialised mountaineering teams in the higher reaches of the Himalayas...
How Solar-Powered Refrigerators Slow Down Climate Change
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it...
Compensation For Crop Loss: Landless, Tenant Farmers Miss Out
Ram Sagar, 64, a farmer who lives in Turkauli village of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh, lost three and a...
Peru Closes Machu Picchu As Anti-Government Protests Grow
(Source: AP) Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests that...
There Was No Need To Scrap Article 370: Dulat
(Source: PTI) Kashmir has "almost totally mainstreamed", with Pakistan out of Kashmiri minds and separatism and the Hurriyat "all finished",...
RSS Ideology And Netaji’s Ideals Poles Apart: Anita Bose-Pfaff
(Source: PTI) Amidst the fanfare over RSS' plans to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birth anniversary in Kolkata on January...
UN Sorry For Photo Of Its Personnel In Front Of Taliban Flag
(Source: PTI) The UN has apologised for "a significant lapse in judgement" after photographs surfaced of some of its personnel...
Govt Has Reduced Parliament To Notice Board, Rubber Stamp: Tharoor
(Source: PTI) The BJP government has successfully reduced Parliament to a "notice board and a rubber stamp", Congress MP Shashi...
Decline In China’s Population Will Have Global Implications
China's population has fallen for the first time in 60 years and is set to be reduced by half by...
Documentary On Modi ‘Rigorously Researched’, Says BBC
(Source: PTI) The BBC on Friday defended its controversial series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “rigorously researched” documentary...
Delhi To Women: Enter At Your Own Risk
Each week, as Thursday draws to a close and Friday approaches, I do a quick mental recap of topics that...
Opinion: India’s Climate Plan Can’t Work Sans Protecting Forests
In August 2022, India announced two enhanced climate pledges within an updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) – the commitments each...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Ripe For An Avalanche Of Misinformation
Seeing might not be believing going forward as digital technologies make the fight against misinformation even trickier for embattled social...
Land Subsidence In Joshimath Shatters Many Business Dreams
(Source: PTI) The hotel owner, the shopkeeper, the laundry owner, the roadside vendor... Hundreds of people watch in dismay as...
Writing Is A Form Of Resistance: Nobel Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah
Writing is not only about nobility and bravery but about the “ordinary mundane business" of keeping alive what is important,...
Making Single-Use Plastic Bans More Effective
Governments around the world are introducing single-use plastic product bans to alleviate pollution. Zimbabwe banned plastic packaging and bottles as...
Vicious Cycle: Forest Fires And Flash Floods In The Himalayas
Wildfires and flash floods are two of the most visible symptoms of climate change across the Himalayas. The two phenomena...
2022 The 5th Warmest Year On Record: NASA
(Source: PTI) Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an...
How Will India Achieve The New Global Goals For Nature?
In December 2022, the world’s governments agreed on a set of actions to address the rapid disappearance of wild plants...
Joshimath Sinking: Anatomy Of A Himalayan Disaster In The Making
(Source: PTI) Joshimath is a town on the edge. It’s the very precipice for thousands of people, despairing as the...
