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India's silent genocide:Why toxic air is our greatest constitutional crisis

India, Dec. 1 -- India faces a nationwide air pollution emergency that transcends Delhi. It violates Article 21's guarantee of life and dignity. The situation demands urgent judicial intervention an... Read More


Tanzania launches major livestock vaccination drive to protect rural livelihoods

India, Dec. 1 -- Tanzania has rolled out a nationwide livestock vaccination campaign targeting millions of cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. The five-year drive aims to curb zoonotic and transbounda... Read More


Hidden resource

India, Dec. 1 -- The 2025 southwest monsoon brought to Punjab its worst flood in four decades. In late August, all the major rivers that flow through the state flooded simultaneously-perhaps for the f... Read More


Flattened frontiers

India, Dec. 1 -- Ravines of Chambal evoke images of deep gullies along the Chambal river, long infamous as hideouts of dacoits. Today, however, these gorges face a different threat-encroachment by tho... Read More


Rights in transit

India, Dec. 1 -- In the first week of October, Kalahandi, a district in Odisha dominated by tribal communities, was awash with celebration. After four months, gram sabhas of Borapadar and Pipal Chhapa... Read More


Once Asia's largest cattle fair, Bihar's Sonepur Pashu Mela now hardly has anything to do with livestock

India, Dec. 1 -- "It is no more a Pashu Mela (livestock fair). Things have changed here. Now it is a cattle fair only in name," said Guddu Singh, who owns a shop on the main road close to the Sonepur ... Read More


New Peru blight-resistant potato variety to be adapted in East Africa

India, Dec. 1 -- A breakthrough blight-resistant potato variety, CIP-Asiryq, is set to be domesticated in East Africa. It is expected in Kenya within a few years. It promises to reduce costly fungic... Read More


In Odisha's Mayurbhanj, excess fluoride in drinking water is causing widespread fluorosis in several villages

India, Dec. 1 -- Children with stained teeth, women bent double, men crippled - this is the harsh reality for several village residents in Budhikhamari panchayat of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, where ... Read More


Women at the grassroots: Coffee farmers and SHG Sakhis are building resilient food systems

India, Dec. 1 -- Indian coffee is recognised globally for its distinct aroma and flavour. Five varieties of Indian coffee have received Geographical Indication (GI) tags: Coorg Arabica coffee from Kod... Read More


How natural farming turned 10 gunthas into a six-figure harvest for these Marathwada farmers

India, Dec. 1 -- A Nanded farmer couple shifts from chemical to natural farming through NABARD's JIVA programme. A diversified "Any Time Money" model turns just 40 gunthas into over Rs 1 lakh in seas... Read More