Villagers develop a protective ring around the Ranthambore tiger reserve
“A tiger was here…and it was not very long ago,” exclaimed Dharm Singh Gurjar looking at pugmarks on the ground, just a kilometre away from village Khohara, on the outskirts…
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Caught between virus outbreaks, Kerala’s model for public healthcare lauded
Balaji Viswanathan, chief executive officer of a Bengaluru-based start-up, was holidaying with his family at the Alappuzha beach in Kerala in the first week of March when his son met…
Indian businesses to consider their human rights impact under proposed plan
To ensure that businesses in India are responsible, sustainable and respect basic human rights, the government of India is in the process of finalising its National Action Plan on Business…
[Interview] Taking One Health approach to tackle zoonoses crucial for India
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been characterised by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. The causative virus SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 207,860 cases ever since it was…
Stepping up monsoon research for more data, improved forecast
India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences is considering increasing its budgetary allocation for monsoon research, following a Parliamentary Committee report that finds its present allocation “low.” The Committee in its report…
India’s proposed overhaul of environment clearance rules could dilute existing regulations
The national government’s environment ministry has proposed a new set of environment clearance rules which seem to be heavily loaded in favour of the industry. The draft of the Environment…
COVID-19 may be the watershed to spur action on wildlife trafficking
The World Health Organization has categorised the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic in light of its spread around the world. Ever since the first cases emerged in the…
Sunrays light up dark villages in Jharkhand
A resident of Dhangaon village in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, Anirudh Gope used to cultivate paddy during monsoon on his one-acre farm. He was bound by seasonal farming and single-crop cultivation…
Scientists record bat calls to build database
Researchers documenting bat diversity in Meghalaya, the Indian state that harbours half of the recorded bat species in the country, have described details of five poorly known species. The researchers…
Women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time
Farida Sheikh remembers her house in the slums in Ahmedabad feeling like a furnace, where summer temperatures have reached up to 50 degrees Celsius. But for the last four years,…
