The UN’s methane roadmap sets ambitious 2030 targets, but India’s absence from the Global Methane Pledge reflects the challenge of balancing climate action with food security.
India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement level, reflecting a global demographic shift. A new UNFPA survey across 73 countries shows that financial insecurity, housing costs, and gender inequality—not changing family aspirations—are driving declining birth rates.
The recently released National Family Health Survey-6 (NFHS-6, 2023-24) by the Union Health Ministry details concrete gains across the country in significant public health and social indicators. Conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, the survey of approximately 6.79 lakh households across 715 districts provides district-level estimations on population, health, nutrition, and…
India’s food safety situation is at a crossroads. This regulatory architecture has been constructed over almost two decades and is supported by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), but is that it is being enforced on par with the scale and complexity of India’s food system, or are there a slew of…
The Government of India’s Jal Jeevan Mission has executed one of the largest rural infrastructure deployments in global history, laying down an extensive network of pipelines and tap connections across the countryside. However, as the mission transitions from asset creation to long-term sustainability, the focus must pivot to a much more critical phase: ensuring the…
In 2023-24, as many as 4.50 crore students enrolled in India’s higher education sector, as compared to 3.42 crore in 2014-15, as shown by the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) reports for 2022-23 and 2023-24 published on Sunday July 8, 2026 by the Union Ministry of Education. A total of 1,289 universities, 48,246…
Western Europe registered its hottest June on record as heat-breaking weather smashed national temperature records across several European nations within days this summer. Temperatures in Denmark topped 37C – beating a previous high that has stood since 1975 – as 39.4C in the Netherlands on June 26 set a new national high, and Bilbao in…
A new WHO report finds that cancer survival increasingly hinges on geography and income, not biology — a pattern India’s own case load, insurance gaps and new prevention push all reflect. The new World Health Organisation’s first Global Status Report on Cancer 2026 – created with IARC – estimated that 20.6 million cancer cases and…
By 9 July 2026, Gurugram had 115mm of rain in just 33 hours. The water, knee-deep in some parts of Golf Course Road, stranded commuters for hours; the city drowned in its filled spaces. Barely days before this, Noida Sector 115, the Malkapur roundabout of Greater Noida, was submerged in a knee-deep deluge as at…
Even as the government battles back on E20 petrol from mileage complaints, the real struggle for the biofuel is on fields and water beds in India and elsewhere. New Delhi, July 10, the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas admitted for the first time that its new E20 fuel (petrol blended with 20 percent…
