Month: June 2018

Gomarda in Raigad district, Chhattisgarh. Credit: Anupam Sisodia

All That Is Green Is Not Forest

Anupam Singh Sisodia 18/06/2018

Chhattisgarh is not letting its degraded forests regenerate naturally....

Police stand gurad outside a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources in Thoothukudi

Minor Leak Observed At Vedanta’s Smelter In Tamil Nadu – Official

Reuters 18/06/2018

The sulphuric acid storage plant at the smelter has...

A villager in Hojai district of Assam on Saturday. Credit: PTI

Northeast Floods Leave 23 Dead

The Northeast flood has been affecting the area for...

An elephant in Mysuru, Karnataka. Credit: shahinolakara/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: Walking With Elephants, With Manan Gupta

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 18/06/2018

Manan Gupta talks about how reading Richard Dawkins helped...

A blue-tongued skink issues an open-mouthed warning to a predator. Credit: Shane Black

Why Do Blue-Tongued Skinks Have Blue Tongues?

Janaki Lenin 18/06/2018

Unlike our frivolous emoticon (:-P), sticking one's tongue out...

Aadhaar has been built in so closely, that even its enrollment is going to happen as a byproduct/simultaneous process, of the health scheme itself. Credit: PTI

Despite Pending SC Verdict, Ayushman Bharat Insurance Using Aadhaar as Identifier

Anoo Bhuyan 18/06/2018

The new healthcare scheme says people who don't have...

An Indonesian student smoke a cigarette at railway track in Jakarta. Credit: Reuters

Protecting Indonesian Youth From Tobacco

Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti and Becky Freeman 17/06/2018

A fifth of Indonesians between 13 and 15 years...