After the success of the first phase, the Delhi government is applying the policy of limiting car traffic by odd-even license plate numbers on odd-even days, once again
The second phase of odd-even – one of the world’s biggest experiment to combat air pollution – is back in the capital city of India. The Delhi government had advertised heavily after the completion of the first phase of the scheme in the beginning…Read More
The famous Hilsa fish is in sharp decline across Asia due to overfishing, pollution and lack of water in the rivers, but Bangladesh is the one shining exception
As New Year’s Day is celebrated in Bangladesh today, people have an extra reason to cheer. After many years, they can have their favourite fish Hilsa for lunch, dinner and maybe their afternoon tea as well. In the many fish markets of Dhaka, that king of fish in Bengal — Hilsa…Read More
Arunachal Pradesh, which was vying for the title of India’s powerhouse with hundreds of hydropower projects planned, has changed gear and is now looking at a combination of solar and geothermal energy
As it moves to harnessing the sun and other sources of renewable energy to meet its power needs, Arunachal Pradesh seems to be living up to its name – land of the rising sun…Read More
Government and private weather experts have all forecast above average monsoon rainfall in India this year, doubly welcome in a country in the middle of a second successive drought
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) and two private weather forecasting firms all expect a bountiful rainfall in India during the June-September monsoon season in 2016. Coming out with its monsoon forecast a fortnight earlier…Read More
Built upon old riverbeds and marsh, many of Delhi’s houses are built on soil that will turn to jelly in an earthquake
The Himalayas, and the rivers that flow out of them, are a gift of the collision of the south Asian land mass into the Asian continent. As a result, the Himalayan region is also beset by a third “gift”: earthquakes. The earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015, accounting for thousands…Read More
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