Almost a year after the signing of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference began their...

Air pollution is responsible for 10,000 to 30,000 deaths in Delhi every year. It is also the fifth leading cause of death in India, a report by the...

At least 20,000 hidden cases of leprosy were detected during a massive door-to-door campaign conducted by the Union Ministry of Health and Family...

Burning of agricultural biomass residue, or Crop Residue Burning (CRB) has been identified as a major health hazard. In addition to causing exposure...

At least 1870 independent experts in 127 countries and territories collaborated to prepare an up-to-date analysis on the state of the world’s health....

Scientists say a month of concentrated efforts is all it takes to control mosquitoes responsible for diseases like dengue and chikungunya. But the...

The Cauvery dispute is more than a simple unwillingness on the part of the states to follow the allocations prescribed. In many ways, the periodic...

There is nothing unnatural about the Cauvery conflict. Any river that runs through different political boundaries is bound to have regions and people...

Those who criticised the call for abrogating the 56-year-old Indus Water Treaty (IWT) as an “irrational reaction” observed that India can’t be...

When war is not an option, controlled strikes are too risky, and sending dossiers to Pakistan doesn’t yield any result, what should India do to drive...

Countries are negotiating a treaty to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the aegis of the Montreal Protocol. Under the protocol, which...

More than 28,000 cases of dengue have been reported in the country, and it is not even October. This vector-borne disease has reached alarming...