The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase in …

That snakebite (a neglected tropical disease) is a public health problem in India and many other low- and middle-income countries has been long known. But a global estimate of deaths due to snakebite was not known till recently. A study that our group, along with researchers from 21 other countries, …

Two of the eight cheetahs inside the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh were on Saturday released into an acclimatisation enclosure from the quarantine area where they were kept since their translocation from Namibia in September, an official said. The remaining six cheetahs will also be released in a …

The Navy chiefs of India, Australia, Japan and the U.S., which comprise the Quadrilateral (Quad) grouping, met in Japan on Saturday and exchanged views on “further enhancing interoperability” in future editions of the Malabar multilateral naval exercise. Meanwhile, a Chinese research vessel, Yuan Wang-6, has entered the Indian Ocean via …

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras developed a crowdsourcing initiative to collect real time information on areas affected by waterlogging or flooding during the 2021 northeast monsoon. The website has been opened again this year with a few changes. Previously, responders uploaded pictures of the area but now they can …

This has been a central question in the climate change negotiations since the Rio Earth Summit (1992) and will also be at the root of contestations at the upcoming 27th Conference of Parties (COP27, beginning November 6, in Egypt) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In …

India has the largest diaspora population, with nearly 1.35 crore non-resident Indians spread across the globe. Many of them leave the country for short-term work and could miss out on exercising some of their rights such as registering their vote in India’s Assembly or parliamentary elections. Currently, the Election Commission …

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Employees’ Pension (Amendment) Scheme, 2014 of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organistion as “legal and valid” while reading down certain provisions. Most important, the court used its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to allow eligible employees who had not opted for …

Low-pressure area likely to form in Bay of Bengal around November 9The system is likely to move towards Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts on November 10 and 11, says the Met Department The Regional Meteorological Centre on Friday announced that a low-pressure area is likely to form over southwest Bay …