Cyclone Hudhud: experience from Koraput
The storm damaged houses, crops and livestock of people in the tribal belt but government has not even taken note of it
Monsoon begins to withdraw from India
The south-west monsoon has already withdrawn from some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and most of Rajasthan
Karnataka launches ‘health adalat’
Health department officials would interact with the public and elected representatives to understand and redress grievances relating to public …
Virtual war
Wikipedia becomes target of anonymous edits against Russia Wikipedia>>Politics>>Russia/Ukraine
How rural India spends
Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure
Savage people
Human zoos were aids to anthropologists, scientists and racial theorists in 19th century
Significance of CERN
Books>> Smashing Physics • by Jon Butterworth • Headline Press • Rs 700 (Kindle edition) and The Particle At The End Of The …
Littis with a twist of taste
Alok Gupta discovers a migrant labourer's innovation to Bihar's famous dish at a wedding reception
A doctor at the pole
Book>> Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins • by Gavin Francis • Allen Lane • Rs 1,200
Price hike: Bengal’s hot potato
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would do anything to check a price rise, even if that makes potatoes vanish or takes buses off the road
Night under a winter sky
As night falls in Delhi and mercury dips, Meeta Ahlawat ventures out with her camera to make a warm conversation with the homeless in the city. …
‘Farmers are not casino players’
Micha X Peled, US-based Israeli filmmaker, has won 22 international awards for his globalisation trilogy, the last of which was a film on …
Hackers—good and bad
Documentary>> We are a legion • directed by Brian Knappenberger
Improved hearths
Book>> Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves For India And The Developing World • Douglas F Barnes, Priti Kumar, Keith Openshaw &…
North-South row over post-Rio panel's role
Even as the South continues to insist on Western nations fulfilling their Rio promise to increase aid, fund flows are decreasing.
Global resource use must be careful and fair
Environmental stress has resulted mainly from unsustainable consumption levels in poor nations because of bad land-use and degraded village …
Borrowed perspectives
When something as vast and complex as the social dynamics of the Green Revolution is depicted through the experiences of a handful, it is …
Green Rio-toric
Will the European Green parties' long agenda to change the world's environment have any takers?
The utopian trap
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY OF INDIA Edited by Kartik C Roy, Clement A Tisdell and Raj Kumar Sen Publisher: Oxford …
Neptune factor
Scientists discover "chimneys" on the sea floor, hope to get an insight into how the ecosystem works
Marking time
El Nio, the warm ocean current in the South Pacific can do the incredible, it can slow down the rotation of the Earth
Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska
Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone
India to witness ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse on June 21
The next solar eclipse, which will be a partial solar eclipse, will take place on October 25, 2022
Earth’s last magnetic field flip lasted 22,000 years: Study
The most recent magnetic field reversal happened some 770,000 years ago and is named Matuyama-Brunhes after the scientists who discovered it
Discovery of contemporary India
Book>> Churning The Earth: The Making Of Global India• Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari • Penguin Viking, 2012 • Rs 699