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Reluctant game-changers

Fast-food industry has been playing a critical role in the fight against drug resistance in developed countries. Why is it dragging its feet over ending antibiotic misuse in chicken in India?

Silence grips forest

Communities and traders fail to earn from non-timber forest produce despite exemption from lockdown rules ISHAN KUKRETI NEW DELHI

MIMICKING MARS

A COMBINATION OF EXTREMITIES IN ETHIOPIA PRESENTS CONDITIONS MOST HOSTILE FOR LIFE THAN ANYWHERE ON EARTH. IT HAS TRIGGERED, YET AGAIN, A DEBATE OVER THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE ON MARS

Damned by old age

Ageing dams and shrinking canal command area are the blind spots in the management of impending water and food crises

BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIA

India can replace China as the world’s preferred source of pharmaceutical ingredients

ANOTHER CURVE

The world witnesses a rare urban-to-rural exodus amid lockdowns and loss of livelihoods. Will our villages be able to support the millions of people again who had migrated due to distress conditions at home?

Covid-19 - When Will It End?

Most countries have adopted the ‘flatten the curve’ model to fight COVID-19 but the end is not yet in sight

“Water A Critical Weapon To Fight Pandemic”

This is the right time to accelerate efforts to ensure universal access to safe water and sanitation

FORTUNE TO MAKE

Vigorous research is underway to fight COVID-19 and pharma companies are ready to make a killing

SANITISE AND CONTROL

Yellow fever became a ruse for US intervention in Cuba

BEGIN AGAIN

Economies will recover once the COVID-19 crisis is over. Chances are that emissions will bounce back, too

Is Covid-19 Disease X?

The pandemic could be the unknown disease World Health Organization warned about in 2018

Covid-19 - A Pandemic

It was foretold, but we never believed that a crumbling infrastructure in the wealthy world would make all of us victims

An old man and his baton

Damodar Kashyap has ensured food, and livelihood in Bastar villages by offering them thriving forests

Coronavirus Panic - Is The World Ready To Face A Pandemic?

More than a month after the first case was reported from China, there is little the world knows about the new coronavirus. The strain remains a mystery, its symptoms deceptively similar to common cold and there are no curative or preventive vaccine or medicine. What's certain is that the virus is highly contagious. In just 45 days, it has killed over 1,000 people in China and infected more than 40,000 in 27 countries. Worryingly, we have not yet seen the peak of the spread. Is the world ready to face a pandemic?

Policing The Net, Privately

India’s proposed rules to curb toxic content on the Net will undermine digital freedom and right to privacy

“THEY STOLE MY WOMB”

Thousands of women across the country are being misled by doctors to get their uterus removed. What’s shocking is that most of them are under 30 and do not really need surgery. Hysterectomy at this age can interfere with one’s hormonal balance, triggering high blood pressure, osteoporosis, vision loss and mental illnesses. As the government remains blind to this emergency, doctors make quick money through insurance schemes. KUNDAN PANDEY investigates the untold tragedy

Share denied

As industry explores energy potential of crop residues, millers and intermediaries are set to alienate farmers from the value chain

Three isn't a crowd

FOR THE FIRST TIME, CONFERENCE OF PARTIES TO THE ONLY CONVENTION FOR MIGRATORY ANIMALS WAS HELD IN INDIA; THREE SOUTH ASIAN SPECIES GOT SOME ADDITIONAL ATTENTION ISHAN KUKRETI GANDHINAGAR

Royally ignored

Small hydropower projects have suffered the rise of solar power

Nothing human about it

A dam on river Human can alienate tigers from one of their largest corridors in Maharashtra

Green laws matter

A COMPENDIUM OF CASES THAT INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JURISPRUDENCE

Lost in the game

Jharkhand government has quietly wiped three wildlife sanctuaries off its records in West Singbhum district to abet iron ore mining

First contact, is it?

The periodic radio waves hitting Earth from a neighbouring galaxy are unlikely to be from aliens, but the possibility cannot be ruled out AKSHIT SANGOMLA NEW DELHI

A fare deal

Luxembourg has a solution to India’s traffic jams

Spending Responsibly?

Companies can bring meaningful changes in society through the huge₹13,624 crore corporate social responsibility funds

Can we triumph over tragedy of commons?

The battle to save Mumbai’s Aarey forest, where the authorities resorted to midnight chopping of some 2,000 trees to make way for the Metro Rail car shed, has grown into one of the most prominent environmental campaigns in recent months. As citizens and environmentalists call out that construction inside Mumbai’s last remaining lungs will affect the temperatures and rains, and result in huge floodings in the city, the movement highlights the growing frustration among people due to poorly conceived urban growth and chaos. Be it parks, public squares, green spaces or sidewalks, urban folks are increasingly realising the importance of shared spaces in providing clean air and water supply, preventing floods droughts and heatwaves and ensuring their physical and mental well-being. Then, why are urban planners hesitant to re-imagine the urban commons?

Target Beyond Reach

India Makes last-ditch attempt to popularise rooftop solar to meet its 2022 targets.

"DISCREPANCY IN UNIVERSE'S EXPANSION RATES COULD INDICATE SOME NEW PHYSICS"

IN 1998, SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED THAT THE RATE AT WHICH THE UNIVERSE WAS EXPANDING IS INCREASING. LAST YEAR, A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS CALCULATED THAT THIS RATE OF EXPANSION IS 10 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THE EARLIER CALCULATION. AKSHIT SANGOMLA SPEAKS TO ABRAHAM LOEB, CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ABOUT THE REASONS BEHIND THE DISCREPANCIES IN UNIVERSE’S EXPANSION RATES AND THE FORCES PULLING THE UNIVERSE APART

Unhealthy affair

AN EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGES INDIA FACES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR