Rs 51,000 crore worth of materials in India's e-waste, most slips through the system

India, May 4 -- India's Paryavaran NITI Manthan conference revealed that 6.2 million tonnes e-waste was generated in FY24. Only 10 per cent of it was formally recycled. Of an estimated Rs 51,000 cro... Read More

An urban water emergency warrants that the Jharkhand Rain Water Harvesting Regulation, 2017 must now become a civic movement

India, May 4 -- Jharkhand's urban water crisis is no longer a future risk or a routine summer inconvenience. In April 2026, Ranchi was already deploying 50 municipal tankers as water scarcity spread a... Read More

Scientists use eDNA method to reveal information about New York City's human diets, wildlife and ecology

India, May 4 -- A litre of water from a water body every week for a year has helped scientists to capture a snapshot of life in and around New York City, including human food consumption habits, urban... Read More

Common EPR portal to anchor India's recycling push as industry, NITI Aayog call for stronger implementation framework

India, May 4 -- The Union environment ministry is set to roll out a common Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) portal, a move aimed at streamlining compliance, improving traceability and scaling In... Read More

Reservoir levels have fallen in eight states, with water storage falling below 40%; three river basins also in crisis

India, May 4 -- The water storage situation in India is steadily deteriorating. While storage in 166 reservoirs has fallen below 40 per cent, water levels in river basins are also steadily declining. ... Read More

The bias in medical research: Africa carries a huge disease burden but is missing from clinical trials

India, May 4 -- Africa bears a quarter of the world's disease burden yet is largely absent from top-tier clinical trials. Only 3.9% of major trials were done exclusively in Africa, and just 0.6% of l... Read More

West Bengal tea workers invoke ILO Article 24, allege systemic labour rights violations

India, May 4 -- Tea plantation workers in West Bengal, represented by Paschim Banga Cha Majoor Samity, have petitioned the ILO under Article 24. They have alleged systemic labour rights violations de... Read More

Poverty's own republic: "Our old world was a free economy of forests"

India, May 1 -- Murlidhar Devidas Amte, the social activist popularly known as Baba Amte, referred to this central India belt-or, poverty's own republic-as the country's "cummerbund". He described the... Read More

Poverty's own republic: "Deep inside jungles, nobody can find us"

India, May 1 -- In poverty's own republic, its sway no longer shocks. But here, something more insidious seems to be taking shape. As the lives of Sangu, Phanas and Sana suggest, poverty is becoming h... Read More

Poverty's own republic: "100 droughts, 10 famines, 10,000 deaths"

India, May 1 -- "I AM A SUKHBASI" Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput-the poverty triad, also known as KBK-is a geographical marker of destitution. The contiguous eight districts, with over 12,000 villages an... Read More

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