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Does Rajasthan's Wage Employment Scheme Tick All The Boxes?

Rajasthan's attempt to provide income security to urban poor shows challenges of designing a wage guarantee scheme for towns and cities

Imposed choice

Rise in hysterectomies among younger women and at private hospitals signals imminent public health crisis

Not an easy fix

Global warming could be depleting forests and grasslands of a key macronutrient, nitrogen. This will have far-reaching consequences on the growth and survival of the animal world

Dry monsoon for east, northeast

EAST AND northeast India may continue to see a deficit of rainfall in August and September this monsoon season, as per the recent analysis by the India Meteorlogical Department (IMD). Most parts of the regions have been receiving below normal rainfall since June. July rainfall, 44.7 per cent less than normal, was the lowest in 122 years, says IMD.

Organic takeover

A federation of farmer-producer organisations taps into the growing organic market to help members raise incomes

Perfect decomposition

A Goa-based startup offers a homegrown biodegradable polymer as an alternative to single-use wrappers

PURPLE POWER

Packed with nutrients, the deep-coloured jamun gives an excellent health boost during the monsoon while ensuring year-round wellness

TAKING OWNERSHIP

There is a surge in demand by forest communities to not only access the resources of their habitat, but also to establish their ownership over forests. They are doing so by wielding a previously underused provision of the Forest Rights Act. The forest department, however, is reluctant to let go of its control. SHUCHITA JHA and ZUMBISH travel across Odisha and Chhattisgarh to understand how communities have gained through this law and the mechanisms they are setting up to ensure sustainable use of forest resources PARTY

Acquired shortage

India's HIV drug shortage is real and could have been averted

Fuelling problems

With LPG price crossing the ₹1,000-mark, the poor are forced to return to unclean cooking fuels

Sequence for a just future

Without a robust regulatory framework, digital genomic data will not allow benefits from biological resources to reach communities

Illusive oilseed

Without the Centre's push, niger seed might vanish from the tribal food plate in near future

Sleep And Your Heart Health

Sleep duration is now considered an essential component for ideal heart and brain health.

MAGICAL MONSOON OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT

The gushing winds after a simmering summer brings in the fresh air from the Seas and Oceans.

NTFP Its impact on Forests

Extraction of Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) has been going on for centuries.

SPECIES IN FOCUS

Green Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis)

TRAILS OF JAGESHWAR

Writings from a wild traveller

Indonesia's Kawah Ijen Volcano Erupts with Electric-Blue Lava

Ever heard of a blue lava volcano?

Giant Bacteria- 5000 times bigger than normal

Scientists have discovered the world's largest known bacterium, which comes in the form of white filaments the size of human eyelashes, in a swamp in Guadeloupe.

Long term high-fat diet expands waistline and shrinks brain

New research shows that fatty foods may not only be adding to your waistline but also playing havoc with your brain.

NASA's Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far.

Animal feed useful weed

Agriculture is the backbone of world's economy and food availability. Various biotic and abiotic factors affect agriculture.

Sign-In for Good Health: Human Microbial Signatures

Deoxyribonucleic  acid or DNA is rightly referred to as the molecule which accounts for 'Unity in Diversity' in living organisms and this molecule has provided valuable biological insights including human and animal health, biodiversity, agriculture, forensics, evolution, and much more.

Fossil of three-eyed animal found, lived in the seas 500 million years ago

Scientists have come to know about such an animal of the Arthropod group, which used to have three eyes.

Protective T cells remain 20 months after COVID-19

In the July, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Anna Martner and co-authors at University of Gothenburg report two main findings.

New cancer drug trial shows promising results

A new cancer therapy that targets a "shield" that protects tumors from the immune system has surprised scientists by causing all trial participants to go into complete remission, representing what is claimed to be the first time such success has been found.

Africa To Pay For Europe's Energy Crisis

AT THE latest meeting of the Group of 7 (G7) countries, host Germany and Italy watered down a pledge to end financing for overseas gas projects. The pledge was made at the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change last year, and at the meet in June, new loopholes were introduced for temporary financing so countries can tide over the energy crisis due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

The invisible bhadralok

FIELD NOTES FROM A WATERBORNE LAND SHEDS LIGHT ON THE LIVES OF THOSE BENGALIS WHO BARELY EXIST FOR THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Dry beginning

June is becoming drier and this is delaying the sowing of the kharif season

Not close enough

Human milk banks are important for infants who do not have access to mother's milk. But India is yet to see large-scale rollout of such centres