India's sudden baby bust

India, Sept. 1 -- The world's most populous country is in a demographic quagmire. India's birth rate is falling at a baffling pace. The dip is being grudgingly celebrated as the ultimate population co... Read More

Waterborne solar

India, Sept. 1 -- With large tracts of land competing with agriculture, forests and other uses, reservoirs and inland waterbodies are emerging as potential sites for utility-scale solar projects. Indi... Read More

What's in a botanical name

India, Sept. 1 -- If there is one item ubiquitous in grocery stores across cities and villages of India, it is mustard oil. For generations, people have used it for cooking and tempering food, as hair... Read More

India on e-wheels: Pune's uniform fares for AC and non-AC buses could offer model for public transport

India, Sept. 1 -- Pune has kept fares the same for air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned buses, a model aimed at making public transport more accessible. PMPML currently operates about 620 electric... Read More

Mechanical compression prevents short circuits in solid-state batteries: Study

India, Sept. 1 -- Mechanically compressing the solid electrolyte in solid-state batteries can prevent lithium dendrites from growing vertically and causing short circuits, allowing the batteries to op... Read More

Plastic regime needs transparency

India, Sept. 1 -- India has recycled 17 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste since 2022, when the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regime came into force, shows the latest Central Pollution... Read More

The Mocha monopoly: how Yemen's dominance of the global coffee trade birthed the Houthi rebels

India, Sept. 1 -- Yemen's historic coffee hub of Mocha once controlled the world's beans, sending "Arabica" across Ottoman and European markets and lending its name to the moka pot. As colonial powers... Read More

Daily weather tracker: Heavy rains trigger flash-flood alerts in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and several other states

India, Sept. 1 -- Chhattisgarh faces extremely heavy rainfall, with several districts under flash-flood threat as authorities urge residents to remain vigilant. Odisha's northern districts face flash... Read More

Nepal floods expose climate finance delay: GCF took seven years to approve glacier-risk project while lenders backed hydropower in vulnerable basin

India, Sept. 1 -- The Green Climate Fund took seven years to approve Nepal's $49.9m glacier flood resilience project, which aims to protect about 2.4 million people from Glacial Lake Outburst Flood ri... Read More

Low pressure areas, western disturbances cause most rainfall in one of the warmest August months

India, Sept. 1 -- Most of the intense rainfall in eastern, east-central and northwest India in August 2026 occurred because of low pressure systems (LPS) / low pressure areas (LPA) from the Bay of Ben... Read More

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