Health & Fitness
Bust Stress By Reaching For The Stars
Theres nothing like staring skywards for a stress-busting, atmospheric, out-of-this world experience. Try a trip that combines stargazing with adventure
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October 2015
Down To Earth
ICAR's claims exposed by its own data
Why has ICAR flouted crop testing rules and ignored data red flags to push gene-edited rice strains that will not benefit farmers?
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November 16, 2025
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Defined to exclude
Kerala has declared itself free of 'extreme poverty', even as people employed in the informal sector, tribal populations and coastal communities continue to live in extremely impoverished conditions
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November 16, 2025
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WE MAY SEE MORE
As the number of extreme events keeps increasing, chances of compound extreme events also grows
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November 16, 2025
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Belém or bust
COP30 may be humanity's last chance to act as warming accelerates and adaptation funds falter, warn a series of reports released ahead of UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil
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November 16, 2025
Down To Earth
Excessive groundwater extraction can cause subsidence
Subsidence is a global phenomenon seen not just in coastal regions, but also in inland areas. Natural subsidence progresses slowly, but anthropogenic activities, like excessive groundwater extraction, can significantly accelerate the rate, says LEONARD OHENHEN, assistant professor, department of earth system science, University of California, Irvine, US. In an interview with SUSHMITA SENGUPTA, Ohenhen says that climate change intensifies the problem through multiple pathways.
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November 16, 2025
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Views on the annual Delhi pollution debate
This is in response to the \"Photo of the day: A game of soccer in post-Diwali Delhi\" published on the website on October 21, 2025.
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November 16, 2025
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SOME OVERLOOKED ASPECTS
Increasing night-time temperatures and rapid intensification of cyclones already happening
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November 16, 2025
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It's all in the name
The Delhi High Court has ruled that no product in India can carry the label 'ORS' unless it strictly adheres to the formula recommended by the World Health Organization
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November 16, 2025
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Stork sanctuary
Villages in Uttar Pradesh mount efforts to protect painted storks and inspire a conservation movement
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November 16, 2025
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Heavier footprints
Investments and capital owned by the world's wealthiest few are driving the climate crisis, according to a first-of-its-kind report
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November 16, 2025
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Setback in Hasdeo
Chhattisgarh high court order upholds mining in the state's Hasdeo Arand forest over community claims, challenging core tenets of Forest Rights Act
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November 16, 2025
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2025 IS UNPRECEDENTED
Never heard about so many such exceptional rainfall events as have occurred this year
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November 16, 2025
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GOVERNING THE CLOUDS
In the absence of evidence, replicability, funding and transparency, cloud seeding languishes as an imperfect science
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November 16, 2025
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EARTH IS WARMING FASTER
Changes in weather systems, once expected decades hence, appear to be unfolding now. In India the consequences are intensifying
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November 16, 2025
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INHERITED CURES
The ethnomedicinal practices of the Sumi Nagas are a living knowledge system transferred orally through generations. Unless protected through legal frameworks, the knowledge may be lost and faces risk of biopiracy
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November 16, 2025
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Wetland walks
Thiruvananthapuram's Vellayani-Punchakkari wetland turns into a climate classroom to help people learn about local biodiversity, agriculture and practices that harm them
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November 01, 2025
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Rays of change
From dark nights to uninterrupted electricity, rooftop solar has brought independence, health and prosperity to a Maharashtra village
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November 01, 2025
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Battle for reefs
Scientists are helping corals fight back against warming seas
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November 01, 2025
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Back to the roots
Over 200 tribal villages in Madhya Pradesh are turning to forests to restore food security, breaking free from years of market dependence
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November 01, 2025
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In unsettled state
Battered by disasters, land- scarce Uttarakhand must relocate villages deemed unsafe. Forestland is the only available option, but the state faces resistance from forest department
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November 01, 2025
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FATAL NEGLECT
A spate of child deaths from contaminated cough syrup exposes deep flaws in India's drug oversight
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November 01, 2025
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Emphasis on rebuilding Gaza post-truce
ON OCTOBER 10, Israel and Palestine declared a ceasefire after a two-year war that led to the deaths of thousands of people and led to mass displacement and a famine in the disputed Gaza strip.
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November 01, 2025
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Flushed and forgotten
Poor containment systems, weak monitoring and illegal dumping have turned Uttar Pradesh's faecal sludge handling into an environmental ticking bomb
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November 01, 2025
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TAINTED FLOW
Panipat shows an overreliance on groundwater even as residents remain wary of its contamination due to untreated discharge of textile recycling wastewater
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November 01, 2025
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How to slash a drug price by 97 per cent
Rulings that bar patent extensions on flimsy grounds by drug giants are opening the gates to dramatically cheaper generic medicines
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November 01, 2025
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FADING REEFS
Warm-water corals are the first major ecosystem to collapse in a rapidly warming planet. Scientists are racing to save them using cutting-edge technologies, from preserving spawn to breeding hardier varieties, but admit their efforts may fall short unless global temperature rises are limited to below 1.5°C.
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November 01, 2025
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The life of water
A THREE-PART FILM SERIES THAT LOOKS AT ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY OF WATER IN INDIA THROUGH A SOCIO-ECONOMIC PRISM, HIGHLIGHTING THE NATURAL RESOURCE'S INTEGRAL LINK TO AGRICULTURE, HEALTH AND POLITICS
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November 01, 2025
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Green shoots in wreckage
Even with deepening ecological collapse, from vanishing species to fractured habitats, signs of hope emerge
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November 01, 2025
Scientific India
First Transplant of Kidney with Modified Blood Type Expands Hope for Patients
In a medical first, scientists have successfully converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted it into a patient a breakthrough that could transform organ transplantation by eliminating one of the biggest barriers: blood-type compatibility.
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