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Heavy water discharge from China threatens...

Heavy discharge of water from China, the highest in 50 years, is threatening to submerge at...

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Restoring dignity

The time has come to end the stigma and discrimination against the leprosy-affected

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How dams can control floods

There should be space for greater storage of water in reservoirs before the onset of monsoon

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‘Reservoirs not managed using a scientific,...

Kerala’s rivers are relatively small and if it rains in a hilly region, it can flood within...

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Commute-related pollution: Kolkata shines...

Fourteen cities evaluated by the CSE for emission of greenhouse gases; Delhi fares the worst,...

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Pulling back from the brink

Extraordinary changes are required to prevent a ‘hothouse earth’ pathway

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ILO report flags wage inequality in India

Stronger implementation of minimum wage laws and boosting frameworks for collective bargaining...

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Defining the Holocene

Why the controversy over the newly designated geological ages of the Holocene Epoch is likely...

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What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ignores

The profession of of waste removal needs to be made caste-neutral through adoption of technologies

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Decriminalise The Margins

The stigma around transgender persons had been instituted by the colonial rulers who introduced...

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