India, July 10 -- The climate crisis is making India's water crisis harder to manage. Rainfall is becoming less reliable and more erratic, and is arriving in short, intense bursts that run off before ... Read More
India, July 3 -- Last month, an Indian pharmaceutical company accomplished something unprecedented. Wockhardt became the first Indian pharmaceutical company to win approval from the US Food and Drug A... Read More
India, June 19 -- This month, a farming programme run by the government of Andhra Pradesh was awarded the prestigious $1.5 million Food Planet Prize. The winner was the Andhra Pradesh Community Manage... Read More
India, June 11 -- In 1884, the year Tokyo completed its first modern sewer network, Bombay's municipal commissioners were debating whether to extend water drainage to its native quarters. They decided... Read More
India, June 5 -- Last week's release of early results from the sixth National Family Health Survey (NFHS) made headlines, not just for its main findings, but also for information that the NFHS no long... Read More
India, May 29 -- Most of India's smoked tobacco problem is bidis, not cigarettes. Of the 267 million adults who used tobacco in India in 2016-17, 72 million were bidi smokers - just over a quarter of ... Read More
India, May 21 -- By all indications, India is self-sufficient in food as harvests scale new heights. In 2023-24, wheat production crossed 113 million tonnes, while rice output hit a record 137.8 milli... Read More
India, May 14 -- On April 27 this year something unusual happened. The planet's 50 hottest cities were all in India. Recent years have been the hottest on record since systematic data was recorded. Th... Read More
India, May 7 -- Every year, antibiotic resistance - the failure of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections - kills more people in India than in any other country. According to the World Health Organ... Read More
India, May 1 -- India grows more legal opium than any other country. Nearly a million licensed farmers, mostly in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, coax the latex out from poppy capsules by scoring them b... Read More