The pandemic and the mind: Mental health issues are on the rise across categories September 5, 2020 The forced isolation has resulted in many seeking help for anxiety and depression, plight of people with disabilities is worrying....
Integrating blue, green and grey water infrastructure to manage urban floods September 5, 2020 Exploring eco-friendly infrastructure alternatives to manage recurring cases of urban flooding events across Indian cities that will bring urban centres...
Floods, COVID-19, African Swine Fever: A relief worker responds to the triple challenge in Assam September 4, 2020 In Assam’s Majuli district, a member of the Mising tribe is helping his community survive the triple whammy of COVID-19...
Daily wage earners dying of suicide jump from 18% to 24% in the last five years: NCRB September 3, 2020 Almost every fourth person dying of suicide in 2019 in India was a daily wage earner, records NCRB. The data...
37% tested hand sanitizers adulterated, 4% contain toxic methanol September 2, 2020 A non-profit, Consumer Guidance Society of India, tested 122 hand sanitizers and found 37% to be of poor quality. 4%...
A monsoon festival of new brides, laughter, snake goddesses, and rituals that fuse ecology and tradition September 2, 2020 The 13-day Madhushravani festival that has its roots in the Mithilanchal region of Bihar, speaks of co-existence and instills love...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown, teenage girls continue to be pushed into child marriage in Cooch Behar, West Bengal September 1, 2020 West Bengal accounts for about 26 per cent marriages of young girls aged 15-19 years in India. More than half...
Reinventing urban waterfronts in Indian cities: Five ideas to step-up the way forward August 31, 2020 In India, every urban waterfront development project is focused on the construction, landscaping and beautification. There is limited consideration of...
Missing BHU student: High Court raps police and threatens CBI probe if need be August 31, 2020 Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a student from Madhya Pradesh studying at BHU has been missing for six months now. His desperate...
Low wages, high health costs: Poor, marginalised women beedi rolling workers face acute exploitation August 31, 2020 Over seven million workers, most of them women, are involved in beedi rolling in India with 96 per cent working...
The pandemic and the mind: Mental health issues are on the rise across categories September 5, 2020 The forced isolation has resulted in many seeking help for anxiety and depression, plight of people with disabilities is worrying....
Integrating blue, green and grey water infrastructure to manage urban floods September 5, 2020 Exploring eco-friendly infrastructure alternatives to manage recurring cases of urban flooding events across Indian cities that will bring urban centres...
Floods, COVID-19, African Swine Fever: A relief worker responds to the triple challenge in Assam September 4, 2020 In Assam’s Majuli district, a member of the Mising tribe is helping his community survive the triple whammy of COVID-19...
Daily wage earners dying of suicide jump from 18% to 24% in the last five years: NCRB September 3, 2020 Almost every fourth person dying of suicide in 2019 in India was a daily wage earner, records NCRB. The data...
37% tested hand sanitizers adulterated, 4% contain toxic methanol September 2, 2020 A non-profit, Consumer Guidance Society of India, tested 122 hand sanitizers and found 37% to be of poor quality. 4%...
A monsoon festival of new brides, laughter, snake goddesses, and rituals that fuse ecology and tradition September 2, 2020 The 13-day Madhushravani festival that has its roots in the Mithilanchal region of Bihar, speaks of co-existence and instills love...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown, teenage girls continue to be pushed into child marriage in Cooch Behar, West Bengal September 1, 2020 West Bengal accounts for about 26 per cent marriages of young girls aged 15-19 years in India. More than half...
Reinventing urban waterfronts in Indian cities: Five ideas to step-up the way forward August 31, 2020 In India, every urban waterfront development project is focused on the construction, landscaping and beautification. There is limited consideration of...
Missing BHU student: High Court raps police and threatens CBI probe if need be August 31, 2020 Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a student from Madhya Pradesh studying at BHU has been missing for six months now. His desperate...
Low wages, high health costs: Poor, marginalised women beedi rolling workers face acute exploitation August 31, 2020 Over seven million workers, most of them women, are involved in beedi rolling in India with 96 per cent working...