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How India moves: Jharkhand's capital Ranchi has only 41 buses for a population of 1.46 million

New Delhi, June 18 -- "These city buses have been parked on the roads for many days as there is no dedicated place to park them within the state capital," Pappu Pandey made a telling remark while poin... Read More


How India moves: Varanasi, the 'eternal city', has transformed from pilgrimage to tourist centre, with consequences for its mobility

New Delhi, June 18 -- Varanasi, or Banaras as it was known earlier, is considered 'India's eternal city', given its sacred status in Hinduism. One of the oldest continually inhabited cities of the wor... Read More


World Crocodile Day 2025: How a saurian became the island of Timor

New Delhi, June 17 -- An organism that hunted the dinosaurs, the crocodile (and its cousins like the alligator, caiman and gharial) has changed little in design from that time. It is this body design ... Read More


In Delhi, the air is clean, and temperatures are comfortable for just 259 hours in a year: Study

New Delhi, June 17 -- Air pollution and urban heat cancel out 88 per cent of Delhi's 'thermally comfortable hours' in a year, according to a new study conducted by CEPT University, Ahmedabad and Respi... Read More


International Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2025: India's arid landscape now receives more rains and floods

New Delhi, June 17 -- The north-western part of India, especially the western part of Rajasthan has been experiencing significant changes in rainfall pattern, aeolian terrain and demography. Comprisin... Read More


China's Everest obsession: following Mallory's footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

New Delhi, June 17 -- The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in late May and early June every year. Extreme weather patterns at this location and altitude mean the main climbing season is remarkab... Read More


May mayhem

New Delhi, June 16 -- This May, India has seen an unprecedentedly early and rapid monsoon. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) officially reported Kerala's monsoon onset on May 24-a full week ea... Read More


Flood fix

New Delhi, June 16 -- This monsoon could be different for Chennai, which has been in the news for its rapidly vanishing waterbodies and waterlogged roads. Estimates show that the capital of Tamil Nadu... Read More


Lost in maize

New Delhi, June 16 -- In an unpredictable turn of events, India, the breadbasket of maize for Asian countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia and Vietnam, found itself scouring global markets for the... Read More


'Supreme Court stems the trend of environmental decline'

New Delhi, June 16 -- Over the past five years, we have watched in dismay as the statutory architecture of environmental laws in India has been undermined, and the principles of jurisprudence that wer... Read More