Youth & Climate Change By Dr Arvind Kumar All of us are living in an era where environmental issues have loomed large and the ill-effects of environmental crisis are being experienced by all and s ...

Remembering Dr. B. R. Ambedkar By Dr Arvind Kumar 14th April marks the Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the Father of the Indian Constitution. Popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, he was an e ...

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre By Dr Arvind Kumar 13th April 2012, this year marks the 93rd Anniversary of the 1919 Amritsar massacre, also known alternately as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: for after the ...

Baisakhi Festival Baisakhi Festival falls on the first day of Vaisakh month (April-May) according to Nanakshahi or Sikh Calendar. For this reason, Baisakhi is also popularly known as Vaisakhi. Accordi ...

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 ...