The protests over CAA-NRC-NPR have acted as a trigger, uniting youth across religious beliefs and communities against police atrocities and attack on freedoms, says Radheshyam Jadhav

India’s shift to BS-VI standard fuel from midnight of March 31 is one of the most complex logistical challenges the nation has handled. How was it pulled off?

Farmers have reaped a bumper rabi harvest of 1 crore tonnes of paddy

Whether it’s PMC, DHFL, CKP or Franklin Templeton, it’s a story of ordinary middle-class folk losing their life savings

FPOs have emerged as an antidote to the ills of the cooperative sector in Maharashtra. Will they live up to their potential?

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

Deforestation is the second largest source of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change after the burning of fossil fuels, the European Commission says.

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

The city requires a new imagination of its relationship to the unpredictable showers, the sea, and its water reservoirs. Here are five takeaways from the recent rains

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

A Darjeeling-based company is transporting basalt dust from Jharkhand and using it as an organic fertiliser to enrich soil and accelerate carbon sequestration. It has used about 500 tonnes of dust.

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

The air quality is predicted to be in the ‘very poor’ category for the next six days, according to the Central government’s Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi

Several studies have suggested that the risk of the Atlantic current changing has been greatly underestimated, the scientists said.

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.

Current pledges can cut emissions by 2.6%, far from the 43% scientists say is necessary to ward off catastrophic warming

The globally averaged surface concentration of carbon dioxide reached 420 parts per million (ppm), methane 1934 parts per billion and nitrous oxide 336.9 parts per billion (ppb) in 2023.

Belagavi-based ecologist K.S. Gopi Sundar talks about his latest study and what he has learnt from his research about the coexistence of birds with humans in India

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

Nearly 200 countries convened in the city of Cali, aiming to implement the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement

The issue had been a bone of contention at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

COP16 aimed at assessing the progress on the agreement reached in 2022 in Canada to halt biodiversity loss, with more funding for biodiversity protection being a central issue.

At the COP16 negotiations in Colombia, countries failed to figure out how they would mobilise $200 billion a year in conservation funding by 2030

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

Climate finance issues expected to come up at COP29 in Baku; floods in western and central Africa, and the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative

Scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.

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

The oncology sector continues to evolve with innovative solutions leveraging AI, robotics and genome sequencing

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

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

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

The ‘START’ programme is a kick start opportunity for the aspiring scientists and engineers

The astronaut from Japan will take part in the Artemis program, a NASA-led effort to return astronauts to the moon as early as 2026, more than half a century after the last Apollo mission.

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

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

These teams will be given six months of mentorship, training and support besides up to ₹5 Lakh to develop their prototypes for sustainable and circular economy solutions

“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

The WHO has recognised TTS as a rare but serious adverse event linked to specific Covid-19 vaccines.

Pneubevax14   14 was found to be safe and induced robust and functional serotype specific immune responses to all 14 serotypes

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine faces UK class action suit; Serum Institute markets it in India as Covishield

‘The king of fruits’ protects people from gastro disorders