Climate change is for real and the manner in which our natural resources are getting depleted adds credence to this fact. This is not it, last month in November, over 11,000 scientists across 130 countries declared an environmental emergency on Planet Earth. According to the paper they released, rising sea levels will flood most coastal …

Unnao Rape Case: Kuldeep Sengar To Remain In Jail For Life; Pay Rs 25L Exemplary Fine Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for “remainder of his natural biological life” for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said while sentencing him for life. “The convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar is hereby sentenced to undergo …

India’s economy is on a downward spiral and even our Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted the same in Rajya Sabha. Sitharaman conceded the growth might have slowed down but the economy will never slip into recession. The Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, was engaged in a serious discussion on the current state of the Indian economic situation. What was …

The sight of manual scavengers cleaning our dirty sewers sans any protective gear is not uncommon. Cleaning sewers without any protective suits does a great deal of harm to the health and well-being of these scavengers. The calls for safety equipment being provided to these safai karamcharis have been on the rise and in a welcome move, Coimbatore municipal corporation …

Cancer has been one of the most dreaded diseases in recent times. Millions of lives are lost on a yearly basis and researchers try their best to find a cure for the deadly life-threatening disease. In a major breakthrough now, scientists have now created a new cowpox-style virus in a bid to completely cure cancer, a report in the Dailymail …

Every year we come across incidents where elephants become victims of human brutalities. Once these elephants die, there is no memory of them whatsoever. This is now going to change as the country’s first memorial for elephants, which died in harness or as victims of human brutalities, was opened on the Agra-Mathura highway at a facility developed by WildLife SOS, …

Delhi’s air pollution levels has sky-rocketed for the past fortnight and since Diwali, to put it mildly, it has gotten worse. The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government claims they are doing their bit to curb the air pollution and has pinned the blame on the stubble burning from the adjoining states that has deteriorated Delhi’s air. In order to prevent …

A new government report stated that there is only one allopathic government doctor for every 10,926 people in India against the WHO’s recommended doctor-population ratio of 1:1000. Compiled by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), the National Health Profile, 2019, stated that the number of registered allopathic doctors possessing recognised medical qualifications (under the MCI Act) and registered with …

Coming out of the closet is not an easy thing to do especially in a country like India. Things have been changing of late as more members of the LGBTQI community are getting the respect they deserve but not all are lucky. 20-year-old Adam Harry is set to become the country’s first transgender pilot but that didn’t come easy.  He …

In a tragic incident, an Indian-American Sikh police officer died after being shot multiple times from behind in a “ruthless, cold-blooded way” during a traffic stop in the US state of Texas, a senior official said. Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, Harris County Sheriff’s deputy, was shot while conducting a traffic stop, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. Dhaliwal, who was in his early …