Year: 2022

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Budget 2022 Is Bad News for India’s Climate Action

Dharmesh Shah 02/02/2022

Climate action can't be an isolated exercise of installing...

PHOTO-Lightning as seen from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on NOAA's GOES-16 satellite - 042920 - NOAA

Longest Lightning Bolt on Record Stretches Across 3 US States

The World Meteorological Organisation has confirmed that a lightning...

Environment: Air pollution in Delhi

Budget 2022-23 Is at Odds With Itself as Far as Environment Goes

Aathira Perinchery 02/02/2022

According to environmentalists, the budget's thrust on development through...

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the finance ministry before she leaves to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi

Union Budget: In Post-COVID Reverie, Centre’s Focus Drifts Away From Health

Banjot Kaur 02/02/2022

Including inflation, the allocation to health this year has...

sars cov 2

Review: In Pranay Lal’s ‘Invisible Empire’, the Virus Is Part of Nature’s Balance

Shahid Jameel 01/02/2022

Virologist Shahid Jameel reviews Pranay Lal's new book on...

Staff member cleans medical equipment inside ward set up for Omicron coronavirus variant infected people at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad

Union Budget Snubs Health Sector, Announces No New Major Schemes

Banjot Kaur 01/02/2022

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said one new scheme,...

A board at the Bhusour gate of the Panna Tiger Reserve announcing the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project. Credit: Veditum-SANDRP

Budget: Big Fillip to Modern Infra Belies Stress on Climate Action, Clean Energy

Aathira Perinchery 01/02/2022

The controversial Ken-Betwa river linking project got an additional...