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Melting ground: How climate change reshapes faith, culture and tourism in the Himalayas

India, July 18 -- Climate change in Jammu and Kashmir has stopped being a subject for seminar rooms and started becoming a lived, dated, witnessed event. This July, over the span of five days, the sac... Read More


A-23a is dead: World's largest iceberg has fallen apart into pieces

India, July 18 -- Imagine a slab of ice so massive it could cover the entire city of Delhi nearly three times over. This isn't just an iceberg; it's a wandering frozen continent that has disintegrate... Read More


First sighted in 2008, rare, orange-mouthed monkey is a new primate species from Africa

India, July 17 -- Scientists have categorised a rare, orange-mouthed monkey from Africa as a new species after it was first spotted almost two decades ago. Named as Colobus congoensis and known local... Read More


Climate change pushes 2.7 million into food insecurity in island states

India, July 17 -- An estimated 2.7 million additional people across 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) were pushed into moderate to severe food insecurity because of more frequent droughts and h... Read More


Daily weather tracker: Very heavy rain forecast for Eastern and Northeastern India; hill states advised to remain alert for next six days

India, July 17 -- Heavy rainfall likely across Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and northeastern states as monsoon systems remain active, prompting yellow alerts and cautionary measures. Weather depart... Read More


A dance in the dark

India, July 17 -- During her teenage years in Goalpara district of Assam, Wimarithy Marak helped her family collect water from a dug well near their house every day. Often, she would notice tiny organ... Read More


What BluSmart got wrong-and right

India, July 17 -- The narrative that has settled around the collapse of electric ride-hailing cab company BluSmart Mobility is wrong in the conclusion many are drawing from it: that the electric cab m... Read More


Fields of fuel

India, July 17 -- On June 13 this year, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari announced the legal recognition of 100 per cent ethanol as a transport fuel, allowing vehicles to ru... Read More


Back to crisis again

India, July 17 -- Sheila Devi has one reason to be grateful for the COVID-19 pandemic. It brought her husband Lalit Yadav home-and this time, he stayed. For generations, migration has been a way of li... Read More


Existential crisis

India, July 17 -- There used to be a major fair along the riverbank every September. Its main attraction was pottery utensils made from the soil of the river. After the river became a drain, the livel... Read More