Opinion - Page 872

Agriculture is the dominant practice in the Himalayan region. It significantly contributes to food security, livelihoods, and rural economy of the...

Climate change has been a high-agenda political issue this year. Now, everyone is looking forward to the Paris summit where the world will seal a new...

After being flummoxed for a few days by the decision of several Sahitya Akademi award winners to return their medals, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

It has been around 15 months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office. However, in this period, a sense of distrust among religious communities...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison,...

When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with...

For many, celebrations for the Dashain festival, the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese calendar will be muted this time around....

Wildlife conservation in India has a long history, dating back to the colonial period when it was rather very restrictive to only targeted species and...

Two recent articles in newspapers are worth taking note of, both about social media and the importance that the Army is paying to this medium. Most of...

Why should we look at the US to check out its climate action plan? The fact is that the US is the world’s largest historical contributor to greenhouse...

Crop pests are adapting to climate change and are evolving to spread to new areas, wreaking more havoc. Dan Bebber from the department of biosciences...

In the seventeenth century, Mughal author Shihabuddin Talish accompanied the Mughal army to Assam, en route to its conquest of the Ahom kingdom. He...