Mahadeshwarabetta records maximum rainfall of 91mm in Karnataka

Mahadeshwarabetta in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar district recorded maximum rainfall of 91mm in the last 24 hours up to 8.30am on May 8. Chincholi hobli in Chincholi ta...

Injustice in Mahan Forest

In a tragic turn of events on the night of the seventh of May, four Greenpeace activists Akshay Gupta, Vinit Gupta, Bechan Lal and Vijay Shankar Singh were arrested for pea...

East Antarctica melt could cause a global coastal destruction

Parts of the vast ice sheet of East Antarctica - which collectively holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 53 meters - could begin an irreversible slide into the ...

Climate change as a matter of public health

For a long time people perceived climate change as an environmental issue–the concern of environmentalists, the concern of a few. It was reframed as a justice issue a...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Equality for Women and Sustainable Development Go Hand in Hand

Half of the world’s farmers are women, but women only own about one percent of the world’s land. Similarly, women make up nearly 50 percent of the global fisher...

India shows the way for other polio-endemic nations

After India’s unexpected feat of freeing itself from polio, the target to eradicate the debilitating disease from the world, set in 1988, seems possible When the WHO ...