Environment

Magsaysay Award Winner Dr. Rajendra Singh—revered as India’s “Waterman” for his five decades of work in reviving rivers—has called for urgent recognition of rivers as legal persons. In India’s cultural tradition, rivers have long been revered as mothers, worshipped and protected well

YAMUNA: DELHI’S LIFELINE IN PERIL: The Yamuna River is not merely a geographical feature of Delhi; it is the very foundation upon which the city was established, both physically and culturally. Yamuna is the reason why Delhi was born. It nourished it.

Kalyan Chatterjee interviews Dr Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, an internationally renowned professional on public interest research, mountain environment and water governance in south Asia. India receives an average of 120 centimetres of rainfall annually, according to the India Meteorological Department — a figure that

This they do by cutting down this invasive species, South American Mesquite, turning it into biochar and applying it to their fields to improve soil quality and secure a sustainable future for their land and livestock. Hitherto they had been producing charcoal

India’s security agencies believe that social media platforms—especially Facebook—have become the most effective tool for Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), for recruiting officials from the country’s defence production sector and civilians from sensitive border areas. Over the past few years, a

Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) is a major source of inconvenience to the public and impinges on the privacy of individuals and TRAI has been taking various steps to curb it. TRAI has issued a Direction to stop misuse of message templates, under

Saint-Gobain launched the Sustainable Construction Observatory, which aims to bring together the main stakeholders in the construction industry to promote the sharing of knowledge and accelerate the transformation of the sector worldwide. In this context, Saint-Gobain presents the findings of the first