India’s Snow Leopards: The Ghosts of the Himalayas and Their Untold Importance
India is home to one of the most elusive and least-seen species in the wild – the snow leopard, known fondly as the “Ghost of the Himalayas” The elusive large…
India’s First-Ever Snow Leopard Census Finds 718 Cats in the Himalayas
India has completed its first-ever nationwide scientific census of snow leopards, revealing an estimated 718 individuals thriving in the country’s high-altitude Himalayan regions. The survey, a landmark conservation milestone, provides…
Tarun Kumar Pithode Appointed New Full-Time Member Secretary of CAQM
Shri Tarun Kumar Pithode, an Officer of the 2009 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Madhya Pradesh Cadre, has taken charge as the new full-time Member Secretary of the…
Coal India Ties Up with IIT-M for Energy Centre
Coal India Limited (CIL) and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a Centre for Sustainable Energy at the IIT…
THE SILENT RETREAT: THE DISAPPEARING HIMALAYAN GLACIERS YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT
When it comes to visualizing melting ice, most of us conjure the distant, polar reaches of the Arctic or Antarctic. But there is a slow-moving, almost unnoticed disaster, thousands of…
Clean Drive, Full Marks: MoRTH Covers 15,004 Sites
The Special Campaign 5.0 for the disposal of pending matters and cleanliness has reached its midway mark. The campaign is being carried out vigorously by the Ministry of Road Transport…
India’s Hidden Underground Rivers: The Secret Waterways Beneath Our Feet
Beneath the colorful facade of India’s landscape, where the mighty rivers of Ganga, Yamuna, and Godavari flow in the sunshine, lies another world which was once lost, buried, and unknown…
India’s Unknown Biodiversity Hotspots Beyond Sundarbans & Kaziranga
When we think of the wildlife of India, we often think of the iconic roaring tigers of Kaziranga or the famous dense mangrove maze of the Sundarbans, but for us,…
Three Major Indian Ports Get Green Hydrogen Hub Status
The Government of India has officially designated three major ports — Deendayal Port (Kandla, Gujarat), V.O. Chidambaranar Port (Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu), and Paradip Port (Odisha) — as Green Hydrogen Hubs…
Grasses of India and Their Diverse Utilisation
India has an extensive range of species, and the grasses of the country might be one of the most underrated but still the most valuable natural resources. From the rich…