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Mint Explainer | The hidden climate cost of your AI query

New Delhi, March 2 -- India has positioned itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure, with massive investments underway. But AI-focused data centres are energy... Read More


Climate Change and You: The true cost of ethanol blending

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Climate Change & You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your inbox. Dear reader... Read More


Invisible hunger: How depleted soils are emptying the nutrients in our food

New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- A few years back, a fertilizer manufacturer from India carried out an internal survey of farmers in the 40+ age group. A stark finding was that most farmers felt they were not go... Read More


Mint Explainer | How an obscure item in the India-US trade deal is stirring the pot

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Under the interim trade agreement with the US, India has allowed the import of an animal feed item called distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGS), which is made from genetical... Read More


What Bharat wants from the budget on 1 February

New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Indian agriculture has shown remarkable resilience in the face of growing climate risks. The sector, which employs about 46% of the workforce, has seen overall production rise bu... Read More


Postcard from Panna: Where debt and desperation force thousands to dig for sweat diamonds

New Delhi, Jan. 27 -- This place is a magnet for troubled souls," said Ram Kumar Gupta. "You wouldn't be here if life was smooth." Gupta spoke on the condition that no photos or videos would be shot. ... Read More


Climate Change and You: Will 2026 be hotter, wetter, or both?

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- Climate Change and You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox. Dear reader, T... Read More


One man distilled up Amrut and Indri single malts-meet India's Surrinder Kumar

New Delhi/Karnal, Dec. 24 -- In 2002, Rakshit Jagdale, a young MBA student, went pub crawling in Glasgow, Scotland. Not on a drunken soiree with batchmates but on a more onerous task, assigned by his ... Read More


Mint Explainer | Dirty air trick: How North Indian rice farmers outsmart satellites

New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Farmers in the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana are burning paddy stubble late in the day, after monitoring satellites have passed over the region, according to a new... Read More