Farmers’ groups raise concerns over cotton crop, rural incomes and cost of clearing stubble

Fee hike can hit students of low-income groups

With land and State resources in short supply, only higher education can challenge social hierarchies, says Satish Deshpande

The Indian renewable energy industry is in a situation of concern but there is no cause for despondency

Lies are being spread by the bogus brigade of vested interests, says Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

This, even as DGFT bans export of hydroxychloroquine

The Centre’s moves to step up loan delivery to MSMEs and relax repayment terms may not be enough. Reverse migration and logistics are challenges, says Radhika Merwin

How praja mandals in Himachal’s tribal districts guard their forest wealth

Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal

The PM’s call to become a world beater in toys has created a buzz around Gujarat’s clock town Morbi. But there’s the Chinese competition to deal with.

The recent Chennai Rains, one marked by the advent of the north east monsoon on October 15, might not have followed the original script, the one penned by weather watching professionals, but it has taken a predictable course in one sense: throwing birds off course. During this period, two birders had unlikely visitors in their neck of the woods — a chestnut winged cuckoo in Pallikaranai and a lesser frigate bird in Perambur

The spotting of the rare bird and its photograph were uploaded on eBird platform, where an entry was made after verification. The bird has been spotted a few times in Kerala

Plog along with this enthusiastic group in Chennai that is intent on mixing jogging and picking up after themselves

Environmental organisations in Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam are leading citizen science projects, transforming individual observations into contributors to science

Governments have missed deadlines on biodiversity action plans and funding for conservation is billions of dollars away from meeting a 2025 goal

The COP16 talks are focusing on how genetic digital information is used and do not touch on the actual samples and specimens.

Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 goals to help halt nature loss by 2030.

Numerically specifying the targets is a precursor to the setting up of a ‘compliance’ carbon market. This means that companies have to ensure that their carbon emissions intensity is within the specified limit or they must ‘buy’ credits from organisations that have surplus credits.

Bird calls and gibbon duets are not uncommon in Guwahati, but the mounting challenges of urbanisation are taking a toll on the region’s biodiversity

The UN body is facing budget shortfall of at least €57 million, threatening its ability to conduct climate negotiations and implement agreements

Hyderabad-based advanced air mobility startup BluJ Aero conducted a flight demonstration of its VTOL aircraft

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened: Anatole France

Is a bigger corpus going to be available for the conservation and preservation of biological diversity?

The Central Water Commission's (CWC) report, states that with a 33.7% expansion of the surface area, the lakes in India experienced an even more substantial rise

The Kalka–Shimla railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Himachal Pradesh, which traverses a mostly-mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla

This is the first time such a high number of tigers has been officially reported missing from Ranthambore in a year

Late snowfall on iconic Mt. Fuji sparks climate change concerns, breaking records and delaying official confirmation

Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh will lead the Indian delegation at the high-level segment on November 18-19

BJP’s third term pledges support for space, AI and warehousing; Next-generation reforms agenda to touch all factors of production including digital infrastructure

The process will be unique to the country and the detailed project report so prepared “is under – scrutiny” across ministries, a senior government official aware of the discussions, told businessline.  

The drug, marketed as Hamsyl – Junior will now be available in a 1500 IU pack, and is priced at ₹Rs 20,970, a company official told businessline

Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos to test-fire Agnibaan rocket with 3D printed engine, aiming for suborbital flight trajectory control

IIT Madras’ Centre for Computational Brain Research is receiving support from Nvidia

ISRO conducted successful RLV-LEX-02 experiment demonstrating autonomous landing capabilities from high altitudes, marking progress in space technology

Shakti and Shiva are comprised of stars with similar chemical compositions, formed 12-13 billion years ago, and each structure has a mass about 10 million times greater than our sun

This was part of the Gairdner Foundation’s announcement of its 2024 Canada Gairdner Award winners

Gopi Thotakura was selected as one of the six crew members for the mission

SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is likely to meet India’s top space technology entrepreneurs in Delhi later this week

The finding challenges the conventional isolation-by-distance model in genetic studies

“Vaccines are the vital pillar of global health, and the IVMA mission is to ensure that every individual, regardless of where they live, has access to life-saving immuniszations” - Krishna Ella, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman of Bharat Biotech