Sustainable Development

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, an owner of a general store in east Delhi, runs a school under the Akshardham Metro Station Bridge, free of cost, for students of nearby villages belongin...

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Agra bans plastic bags to curb pollution

With an aim to curb the rising pollution in Yamuna, the Agra district administration has decided to strictly implement the ban on use of polythene in the city. For the same ca...

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Why do millions of Indian defecate in the open?

Its early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering ...

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The parched planet: Water on tap

Researchers are exploring unconventional sources of fresh water to quench the globe’s growing thirst. In an effort to combat his country’s long-standing water cris...

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With depleting groundwater, Lucknow headed for severe crisis

The groundwater level of Lucknow continues to deplete at an alarming rate due to unregulated and excessive extraction and relentless concretization of green zones. According t...

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India to adopt uniform licensing for gas, oil exploration

Policy proposed to bring uniformity in contractual provisions for exploration and production of all types of hydrocarbon resources, says minister at ongoing World Petroleum Co...

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India to be Land Degradation Neutral by 2030

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar says the government is working on a plan to `stop and reverse’ the serious threat With India’s food security under threat, w...

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Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that environmental literature has become mains...

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In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and shri...

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Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on the r...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024