All five Indian teenagers who competed at the International Physics Olympiad 2026 won gold medals; thanks to their achievement, India shared the world No 1 ranking with China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan.
The Delhi government has approved an ambitious electric vehicle policy that eliminates registration fees and road taxes for EVs priced up to Rs 30 lakh, offers a Rs 1 lakh incentive for purchasing new EVs while scrapping old vehicles, and mandates that only electric two-wheelers can be registered starting April 2028.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted some 20 per cent of the global flows but even if it opens, damages to production facilities in the region will take time to repair, points out Sunita Narain.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan advocates for the establishment of 'Mahakal Standard Time' based on Ujjain's historical significance in time calculation, challenging the dominance of Greenwich Mean Time.
Devesh Pankaj Bhaiya from Jalgaon and Sandeep Kuchi from Hyderabad won gold medals while Debadatta Priyadarshi from Bhubaneshwar and Ujjwal Kesari from New Delhi secured silver at the International Chemistry Olympiad 2025 in Dubai.
Experts warn that a new government definition of the Aravali Hills, accepted by the Supreme Court, could lead to environmental degradation and expose Delhi and surrounding regions to harsher weather and drought conditions.
Experts question whether a cloudburst caused the recent flash flood in Uttarkashi, India, citing insufficient rainfall and other potential factors like ice chunks, rockfalls, or landslides.
The Delhi government has announced that vehicles older than 15 years will be denied fuel at petrol pumps starting April 1.
Clean air needs action all year round; and that it will work only if we act jointly and at scale, asserts Sunita Narain.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih referred to newspaper reports mentioning a considerable violation of court orders.
The heat index in major metro cities in the country has majorly risen since 2010 compared to a decade earlier.
The reason why Jammu resident Jagmohan Singh is doing so will bring tears to your eyes.
Stargazers across the country were treated to a visual delight as Earth cast its shadow on the moon in the last total lunar eclipse of the year on Tuesday.
Each disaster has the same message: Learn to respect the mountains before you build tunnels, roads, and houses, notes Sunita Narain.
'The State has played with their lives. Arsenal proved the machines were hacked and false evidence implanted with false files and letters.'
Green think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the ongoing smog episode is a public health emergency.
The mercury breached the 46-degree Celsius mark in several places such as Allahabad (46.8 degrees Celsius) and Jhansi (46.2 degrees Celsius) in Uttar Pradesh; Sports Complex (46.4 degrees Celsius) in Delhi; Ganganagar (46.4 degrees Celsius) in Rajasthan; Nowgong (46.2 degrees Celsius) in Madhya Pradesh; and Maharashtra's Chandrapur (46.4 degrees Celsius).
If India is to urbanise successfully, it has to focus on Tier 2 cities with a population of one-five million, observes T N Ninan.
The Centre for Science and Environment had claimed that the bread samples of top brands in Delhi contained cancer-causing chemicals -- potassium bromate and potassium iodate.
There is a process to be followed for EUL and pre-qualification of vaccines under which a company has to complete phase 3 trials and submit the whole data to the regulatory department of WHO which is examined by an expert advisory group," Swaminathan said.
According to the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), the air quality is considered to be in the emergency category if the PM2.5 and PM10 levels continue to be above 300 micrograms per cubic metre and 500 micrograms per cubic metre respectively for 48 hours or more.
Sebamed's campaign for its cleansing bar of the same name, released across print, television, digital and outdoor, has also named Santoor, a popular soap brand from Wipro Consumer Care.
A study conducted by a leading green NGO has found high amount of heavy metals including mercury in fairness products of reputed companies being endorsed by big Bollywood names.
Says sector severely wanting in pollution & regulatory compliance
Zohnerism drives our daily consumption of news and shaping our understanding of most issues, warns Sandeep Goyal.
Although each vehicle has become cleaner, air quality remains poor because of the drastic increase in the number of vehicles
Centre plans to acquire land and then give it on lease to miners.
In December 2016, the Supreme Court directed the central government to have a graded action plan to tackle the menace of air pollution. There are two plans - Comprehensive Action Plan and Graded Response Action Plan.
Labels on packages do not explain just how much of our daily salt, sugar or fat quota this "fun" food is taking up.
CSE supports the tax hike on big cars and SUVs but says Budget is incomplete, as it has failed to take steps to stop misuse of diesel fuel subsidy by cars.
The Centre for Science and Environment has demanded an additional duty of up to Rs 1.62 lakh on big diesel cars to prevent the misuse of subsidized fuel for luxury.
The Centre for Science and Environment has demanded an additional duty of up to Rs 1.62 lakh on big diesel cars to prevent the misuse of subsidized fuel for luxury.
India lost around 38.5 thousand hectares of tropical forest in the last decade. Nearly 14 per cent of the country's tree cover! It is one thing for Modi to announce that India will reach a net-zero level of emissions in 2070. But if it is serious, it needs to start today, points out Ramesh Menon.
NEERI studies show vehicles cause lowest emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.
Chinese companies have 'designed' the sugar syrup which is used to adulterate honey so that it can pass Indian laboratory tests, reveals Sunita Narain.
Violation of the provisions entails a punishment of a jail term of up to five years or with fine up to Rs one crore or with both.
To justify that farmers must burn if they are not paid cash incentive is doing injustice to them and to the lungs of the children of the country, notes Sunita Narain.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has said India has capitulated at Cancun, betrayed its poor and agreed to "a weak and ineffective text that paves the way for ineffective emission reduction targets for the developed countries and scrapping of the Kyoto Protocol."
Whether it is the blunder over the glaciers or the linking of natural disasters to global warming, the IPCC's credibility has been badly hit. If this encourages laxity over global warming, that will be tragic.
"There has never been a United Nations climate conference, be it the one in Bali or Poznan, that has been as disastrously organised as this one in Denmark," fumed Sunita Narain, the director of an Indian NGO, the Centre for Science and Environment.
