Big data’s biggest challenge: climate change

Researchers are using big data technology to model, interpret, and illustrate the predicted environmental effects of climate change. Global sea levels are about eight inche...

Systematic approach to in-situ water harvesting assures irrigation

During summer, the field is ploughed and furrows (one foot depth) are made. When it rains the water stays back in each of the furrows and sinks into the soil. Fast changing...

True Review: Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania

Critics Rating: 3.5 STARS*

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Gaurav Pandey, Sahil Vaid, Ashutosh Rana, Sidharth Shukla.

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Melanie C Shakes Her Power For Kickstarter Campaign

Melanie C is giving her support to a project that aims to bring clean energy to places without electricity through the power of music. SPARK is a percussion shaker that con...

It’s time to bring HIV prevention drugs out of the closet

May 14 should have been PrEP’s big coming out moment. That’s when the federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt the use of PrEP – a...

Wanted: more international funding to fight climate change

The Economic Survey 2013-14, announced on Wednesday, appears to be setting the tone for India’s climate change negotiations on global fora. It is in line with a state...

Railway budget promises clean water, better hygiene and safety

Ministry says it is seeking Cabinet approval to allow foreign direct investment in rail sector The Railway Budget 2014-15, which is also Narendra Modi government’s ma...

India?s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests

Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations India’s green cover is increasing, but this ...

5th Jagran Film Festival, Delhi concludes. now all set to travel across the next 15 cities in India

5^th Jagran Film Festival, Delhi concludes; now all set to travel across the next 15 cities in India

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