India’s missing children
Some 174 children go missing every day. Only about 50% of them are ever found again.But the story behind these statistics is far more complex than what social media will have you believe
The Hindu / August 2018
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Some 174 children go missing every day. Only about 50% of them are ever found again.But the story behind these statistics is far more complex than what social media will have you believe
The Hindu / August 2018
Romulus Whitaker has been travelling the country for permission to collect snakes for his antivenom project
The Hindu / February 2018
80 species of wildlife have been attacked, often fatally, by an animal made ubiquitous by humans — the domestic dog.
The Hindu / December 2017
The story behind an award-winning photograph
The Hindu / November 2017
Neither the law nor its hidebound interpretation makes it easy for a couple to end a marriage
The Hindu / November 2017
It’s almost never an ‘accident’ in the kitchen. Why immolation claims such an inordinately high number of women victims
The Hindu / May 2017
Sivakasi’s matchbox industry, as famous for its iconography as it was once notorious for child labour, is dying rapidly
The Hindu / April 2017
Mark Kurlansky, who has written about the cod and salt, about baseball and rock & roll, talks of the need to understand evolution in order to be an evolved society
The Hindu / December 2016
American geneticist Mary-Claire King, who discovered that breast cancer can be inherited, talks of the road ahead for India
The Hindu / February 2017
A small town in Tamil Nadu has become a microcosm of the tenuous co-existence between humans and elephants across the country
The Hindu / July 2016
Neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth on how path breaking techniques are changing the way we see, understand and control the brain
The Hindu / January 2016
There is much in the new guidelines that eases the process of adoption. But some categories of children might still never find families to take them in.
The Hindu / November 2015
Can we change the world with the click of a mouse?
The Hindu / October 2015
Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way illegally to Asia
The Hindu / May 2015
A neat black-ink notebook jotting, sourced back to his Cambridge University days, reveals that Newton in fact briefly pondered plants too.
The Hindu / February 2015
Displacement does more than efface identities and disrupt livelihoods, it can reduce life expectancy, finds a DNA study
The Hindu / February 2015
"India, perhaps the single most interesting country in terms of genetic diversity, is not as active as it should be in genomic research"
The Hindu / February 2015
The epoch of human-led change can be pinned to a precise moment on 16, July 1945, the day the first nuclear bomb exploded in Alamogordo
The Hindu / January 2015
Statistical extrapolation used in the tiger census is “weak” and based on an approach developed in 1938 says Ullas Karanth
The Hindu / January 2015
Aircraft based on the drawings and text of Vyamanika Shastra cannot fly
The Hindu / January 2015
Hundreds of requests have been made by defence units across the country seeking tusks to put up in their messes and halls: PCCF
The Hindu / August 2014
Of the 38,868 cases of child rape recorded by NCRB over the past five years, a good proportion comes from shelters, schools and juvenile homes.
The Hindu / July 2014
In its reconstituted avatar the National Wildlife Board could be catastrophic to protected habitats, opening them out to dams, mines, highways and other development projects.
The Hindu / July 2014
Untouched by a gamut of Central and State schemes targeted at child and maternal health, over 33,000 children across Karnataka's Raichur district are malnourished.
The Hindu / July 2010
60 per cent of women with Ph.Ds in science never make it to research positions. The "glass ceiling” that cuts short women's careers in science has little to do with having kids.
The Hindu / May 2010
As we learn about the impact of illegal mining in Bellary, an EIA of two other iron-ore-rich districts in Karnataka, reveals repercussions on farming here.
The Hindu / December 2011
After the horrific ‘honour killing' of almost her entire marital family by her brother, Sushma battled valiantly for justice, not least against the dictates of the Supreme Court.
The Hindu / March 2010
A decade after Kolar’s goldfields were closed down by Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. it emerges that residents have been left with a frightening legacy: arsenic in their water.
The Hindu / September 2010
In Kadkol, no arrests have been made yet for the denial of access to a public water tank and later for its fouling by upper caste Hindus.
The Hindu / November 2006
The insatiable demand from Bangalore’s construction industry spawns large-scale illegal sand extraction in Kanakapura, permanently changing the landscape of scores of villages.
The Hindu / August 2008
A possible case of manipulation in a research paper by an NCCS professor awaits an eighth investigation, exposing the need for a formal mechanism to tackle malpractice in science.
The Hindu / September 2007
Could Picasso, Matisse or Andy Warhol, with their magnificently inexact representations of the real world, possibly offer anything to the empiricism of neuroscience? It turns out, yes.
The Hindu / December 2013
The massive tectonic processes intrinsic to the Indian plate, notably in the Himalayan arc and on the western coast, cannot be ignored, says seismologist Vinod Kumar Gaur.
The Hindu / May 2013
ISRO's Rs 900 crore "education satellite" EduSat beams lectures to 10,000 classrooms in technical universities and primary schools across the country. But is it a success?
The Hindu / March 2007
The State features at the bottom of the ranking of States in implementing the Forest Rights Act.
The Hindu / June 2011
The Soliga tribal community faces imminent eviction as BRT Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka gets a "tiger reserve" status.
Frontline / December 2010
Two States that celebrated a formidably successful tiger conservation programme have turned into sites of unprecedented conflict between the endangered animal and people.
The Hindu / January 2014
The vibrant Hampi bazaar, which for years thrived and morphed within an old temple complex, is being demolished, leaving traders out of work and hundreds homeless.
The Hindu / August 2011
The Karnataka Forest Department sets about planning its biggest ever operation to capture wild elephants since the State’s last ‘khedda’ in 1971, when 47 animals were captured.
The Hindu / October 2013
And no, it is not because of sea level rise. Humans are sinking them four times faster than the sea level is rising.
The Hindu / April 2014
Snatching time between attending to 16 tigers down with gastroenteritis, a “zoo health committee”, has to now help the Government find a solution to a self-inflicted problem: the proposed ban on cattle slaughter.
The Hindu / September 2010
If you weren't looking for it, you would miss the dried stalks of ragi that poke out through the layer of plastic bags, broken glass and rotting food on Lakkappa's farm. But the 65-year-old is surprisingly uncomplaining.
The Hindu / March 2011
"A lot of it actually"
The Hindu / September 2009
Under a relentless mid-morning sun, Maimunisa and her husband salvage the last of their belongings — utensils, clothes, firewood — from the home they have lived in for 25 years, and one they have been asked to destroy. Elections are round the corner.
The Hindu / March 2010
This, in a city where piped water is largely erratic or absent, where women spend at least two hours a day fetching water from public taps and where groundwater is overexploited.
The Hindu / June 2009
His gaunt frame propped by walking sticks, Ramegowda C. Patil looks older than his 45 years. His painful limbs prevent him from working, and his six-acre farm has turned into a wasteland.
The Hindu / May 2010
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