A seaweed harvester off the coast of Ramanathapuram, India, March 8, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anuradha Nagaraj
Coastal women who have long dived for a harvest are now battling global-warmin
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The index of panic as per the IANS CVoter Covid Tracker has shot up in the week ending March 29 with more people, around 22 per cent, afraid that they or someone in the family ca
London, March 29 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new framework for selecting the best trees for fighting air pollution that originates from our roads.
In a study, pu
An indigenous person from Pataxo ethnic group is seen inside the village Nao Xoha, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Sao Joaquim de Bicas, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/
The fingers of child are pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger, in this August 1, 2005. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/Files
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A staff member checks the temperature of a passenger entering a subway station, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China. Photograph: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
BY DODUL MONDAL
IANS | March 27
This is a tough time. Perhaps the toughest medical crisis as far as I can remember. WHO says 197 countries across the globe are infected with coronavirus disease (COVID
By Deepak Sharma
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Top Indian microbiologists are hopeful that after the 21-day lockdown, when summer approaches, the rise in temperature would play an important role
By Sfoorti Mishra
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) At a time when India is locked down for the next 21 days starting Wednesday to break the chain of coronavirus transmission, there are hypothetical
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is written on a table during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 23, 2018 REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Advocates of Univ
A man walks past an advertisement showing per-cautions of Coronavirus (COVID-19) after the lockdown by the government to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), In New Delhi on Tuesda
Ajay Kewat, a bank employee, poses for a photograph inside his house in Mumbai, India, March 23, 2020. Picture taken March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
MUMBAI, March 24 (Reuters) - Shaikh
By Aarti Tikoo Singh
New Delhi/Washington, March 23 (IANS) The number of casualties in China due to the novel coronavirus pandemic may be way higher than the official figure that the Chinese
A man bathes at a roadside municipal tap in a market area of Kolkata, India, March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
With water use rising by 1% a year, cutting down could help curb climate-heat
March 22 March 22 (IANSlife) "The arts are wonderfully challenging and difficult to engage with or tackle, depending on your point of view. They are by nature, reflections of a nations identity -- at times disp
A wheat field is seen in Los Banos, California, United States, May 5, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
A study looked at how severe drought could hit U.S. wheat harvests - and ripple around the world,
By Sukant Deepak
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) "I'm not sleep deprived, just that I don't want to sleep. How can one miss the night? Yes, I am forever restless. Sometimes I might just take out m
A combination photo of the Woodlands Causeway between Singapore and Malaysia, before (L) and after Malaysia imposed a lockdown on travel over the coronavirus outbreak. REUTERS/Edgar Su
London, Marc
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi, March 18 (IANSlife) Pushed on the brink of extinction, many bird species are fighting a battle to simply survive in the urban world. Coming forth as a silent call fo
A woman hangs a blanket out to dry, at a slum in New Delhi, India January 2, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Millions of people in Asia are at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 due to inadequat