On a mission to battle polio

Polio-stricken Arvind Kumar Mishra has been travelling across States in his wheelchair to spread polio awareness

The progress is slow. The rickety wheelchair has a ...

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in Maharashtra?

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in parts of Maharashtra? Or is it a one-off phenomenon?

The South Asia Network on Dams, Ri...

New degree in Sustainable Agriculture launched at Hertfordshire

The BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security has been designed around internationally recognized expertise and facilities at four partner institutions all lo...

India ranked 155th in global environment performance list at World Economic Forum

India has been ranked at a low 155th position in a global list that places countries on how well they perform on high-priority environmental issues.

The 2014 Enviro...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

5 ways to accelerate global health in 2014

Future gazing is tempting. In 2013, the global health community talked a lot about the future. We debated what would happen in 2015 and beyond — about how we would se...

Huge Lake-Effect Snow Expected

As bitter Arctic air continues to spill east, temperatures will plummet to below 0 over the Tug Hill plateau through the overnight hours. Factoring in the winds, it will fe...

TRUE REVIEW: MAHABHARAT

Rating: 1.5 stars

Director: Amaan Khan

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sunny Deol, Vidya Balan, Deepti Naval, Manoj Bajpayee...

Thought Factory : Tedious Terrains

“Landscape is   . . .   
devoid of chance, and every falling leaf fulfils, as it falls, one of the greatest laws of the universe.”

–...