The Unsung Foot Soldiers Of Mahseer Conservation

Standing at 196 cm. (six feet six inches) in his socks, Owen Bosen, looks every bit the quintessential dorai from our colonial past.

The Sanctuary Interview Meet Harvey Locke

Harvey Locke, Co-founder of the Nature Needs Half Movement and of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, speaks to friend and colleague Vance G. Martin, President of WILD Foundation (USA), Wilderness Foundation Global (South Africa), and Founder-Co-Chair of the Wilderness Specialist Group of the World Commission on Protected areas (IUCN).

Counting Butterflies

On a pleasant, sunny winter morning in Delhi this January, a motley crew of researchers and nature enthusiasts strolled through the Asola Butterfly Park, conducting a population count of a particular butterfly.

Corbett Diaries

Till Mota Saal Tigress and Cubs Learn to Feed on Social Media Likes

Nowhere To Flow

Over 60 years after the country got its first plan to rejuvenate the rivers, not a single basin has been spared from over-exploitation

Game Theory, Politics & Society

Economist Alexander Wolitzky uses game theory to model institutions, networks, and social dynamics

Here Come The Gene Hackers

Interventions to make heritable changes to the human genome are fraught with uncertainties. There are legitimate concerns about using a still imperfect technology that can rewrite the very blueprint of life. Also, the debate on whether it’s ethical to do so is far from being settled. However, would-be baby tinkerers around the world have failed to get the message

One Tool To Track It All

Can the humongous online data generated in the job guarantee scheme be a real time index for rural distress?

Let Cauvery Be

Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining and dumping of effluents along the river has left the basin battered and bruised. Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on its banks.Jitendra travels along the course of one of India’s biggest rivers to understand why its level hit a record low this year

Capital Conundrum

At the peak of Karnataka’s water crisis, the state’s deputy chief minister, G Parameshwara, made a desperate suggestion. He said the government was mulling over a moratorium on the construction of new residential complexes in Bengaluru for five years to tide over the water crisis. But are restrictions on construction or population an effective way to resolve the problem? Or are there simpler ways to strengthen water conservation? SUSHMITA SENGUPTA spoke to a range of experts

Land Sliding - A Most Common Disaster In Hilly Areas

The sliding down of a piece of land under the force of the gravitational pull of a mountain or hillside is called the landslide.

Tocols As Radiation Countermeasures

Tocopherols and tocotrienols collectively known as vitamin E (vit-E) or tocols are important dietery nutrient because of their remarkable biological activities including antioxidant activity, neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties.

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Awards

Science and technology has its special role and space in every society and India is also in front of recognizing the talent of its young scientists and technologists by bestowing on them with Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) awards every year.

Edible Coating And Film- Edible Biopolymers And Food-Grade Additives

Food is a vital product for the survival of human beings and with passage of time quality concerns of consumers are rising.

Digital Education – A Step Up for Traditional Education in India

The increasing popularity and apparent benefits of digitization have forced all sectors to invest in this domain. Recent government initiatives like Digital India have steered significant efforts of embracing digital means for efficient functioning of key sectors. While traditional forms of teaching work in a generic manner, technology-enabled solutions allow customization of traditional approaches to suit individual student needs.

Sleeping With Artificial Light At Night Associated With Weight Gain In Women

Sleeping with a television or light on in the room may be a risk factor for gaining weight or developing obesity, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

Palm Oil In India And Its Health Effects

Oil palm is a crop that flourishes in the same regions as some of the world's most precious rainforests and appears in many food and household products.

Package Of Practices To Improve The Udder Health Status And Clean Milk Production

Quality is vital in animal production.

Mouse Lemur-animal Model For Biomedical Research

The discovery of animal models in biomedical studies is a boon to mankind.

Lycopene And Health : Growing Commercial Significance

Primarily the pigments are present in plants for photosynthesis, to capture the light of all hues.

CRISPR TECHNOLOGY: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR EDITING GENOMES; ITS LATEST TRENDS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN INDIA

CRISPR is a genome editing tool that is creating a buzz in the science world.

The Butterflies Of Dzongu

We were driving along when my photographer friend Sandip Das exclaimed, “Wow!” A large butterfly was landing and flying and landing again on the mud by the roadside. We stopped to examine it and were surprised to find that it was a northern jungle queen – high on our wishlist!

Fixing A BFO Bone!

On April 16, 2017, we received a call from a news reporter Sanjog Patil of Lokmat informing us that an unusual bird had been found injured by a farmer in Tambave.

A Party On A Banyan Tree!

While walking through a forested patch adjoining the famous Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh one morning, I noticed a lot of movement on a big banyan tree. On closer inspection I realised that the tree was fruiting and had attracted hordes of birds! At first, I could only see Brown-headed Barbets. But as I inched closer, I saw Coppersmith Barbets as well…

Wings Of Change

SOME OF THE WORLD’S RAREST BIRDS ARE FOUND IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS. BUT A LOT OF FACTORS ARE PUTTING THEIR SURVIVAL AT RISK DEEPANWITA GITA NIYOGI

Why Did My Children Die?

BY THE time doctors landed in our village for the first time, our village had already lost 11 children to chamki (a yet-unknown type of acute encephalopathy syndrome) fever.

We Let Them Die

Failure of states to provide basic nutrition and health facilities has led to the death of hundreds of children from the preventable acute encephalopathy syndrome. BANJOT KAUR from Bihar and SHAGUN KAPIL from Uttar Pradesh report

The Science Of Dishonesty

FALSIFICATION, FABRICATION AND PLAGIARISM OF RESEARCH HAVE FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES LAKSHMY RAMAKRISHNAN

Importance Of Nothing

IT IS NEITHER A LUXURY NOR A WASTE OF TIME, BUT A NECESSARY PART OF MEANINGFUL THOUGHT AND SPEECH

Hidden Enhancer

MANIPUR’S WILD CORIANDER, AWA PHADIGOM, ACTS AS A FLAVOURING AGENT IN MEAT AND VEGETABLE DISHES, BESIDES BEING USED AS A MEDICINE