Feeding the World By Dr Arvind Kumar With upwards of two billion extra mouths to feed in the coming decades, food security has become a mantra in debates throughout the globe. The UN estimates one-in- ...

Ensuring Sustainable Prosperity The Worldwatch Institute in its latest release State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, which is the 29th in a series that Worldwatch began in 198 ...

World Health Day 2012 World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. Each year a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority ar ...

Ageing Nuclear Plants Dr Arvind Kumar In the aftermath of Fukushima tragedy, triggered on 11 March 2011, that left 19,000 people dead or missing, the IAEA has raised serious safety concerns on global ...

“Your whole day goes just planning how you’ll get water,” Mrs. Sharma, a homemaker in a middle-class neighborhood of capital, rises at 6:30 a.m. and begins fretting about water. It is a rare morning w ...

Perils of Ocean Acidification By Dr Arvind kUmar The findings of a recemtly published research, undertaken by a group of researchers from the United States and four other countries, reinforce warnings ...

Ramnavami Ramnavami is dedicated to the memory of Lord Rama. It occurs on the ninth day (navami). The festival commemorates the birth of Rama who is remembered for his preperous and righteous reign. R ...

Prevention of Blindness By Dr Arvind Kumar 1st April inaugurates the commencemnt of the prevention of blindness week to be observed from 1 to 7 April by the National Society for the Prevention of Blin ...

Earth Hour is a worldwide event that is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, encouraging households and businesses to turn off their no ...

Despite rapid technological progress and economic growth, close to 900 million people the world over do not use drinking water from improved sources and over 2.6 billion lack access to decent sanitati ...