-The Telegraph Study by Researchers at International Institute of Population Sciences finds that health reasons account for 7 per cent of 3,213 people who stopped work for a year or longer New Delhi: Chronic health disorders accounted for 30 per cent of decisions by a sample of middle-aged and elderly people in India to stop or curtail paid work, the country’s first-ever population-based study to estimate how chronic diseases impact productivity has...

-ThePrint.in There’s been a 40% decline in disposal of cases during pandemic, a report mapping district courts’ performance showed.  The study was conducted by a Delhi-based think-tank.  New Delhi: The pandemic has severely affected the justice delivery system in India, causing a sharp decline in the disposal of cases,  a study mapping the performance of district courts during the pandemic shows.  In its latest report called ‘Data Speak: A look at the District...

-ThePrint.in In a study published in the Nature journal Wednesday, scientists attributed the methane growth in 2020 to wetland emission and changes in ‘atmospheric sink’. New Delhi: In 2020, the year Covid-19 pandemic led to global economic slowdown, Researchers documented an alarming rise in atmospheric level of methane emissions, despite a drop in human-induced emissions. Scientists attributed the methane growth rate anomaly to lower hydroxyl radical (OH), which is the main remover of...

-India Spend India's transition to sustainable farming has to be calibrated and orchestrated well, drawing lessons from the successes of India's Green Revolution and the recent crisis in Sri Lanka, says sustainable farming expert P.S. Vijayshankar Bengaluru: The production-centric intensive agriculture brought about by India's Green Revolution in the 1960s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and high levels of groundwater utilisation, helped India achieve food self-sufficiency by the 1970s, but has created a...

-The Third Pole/ Scroll.in The dams the two countries are relying on may not be able to generate much power if avalanches, landslides and floods continue worsening. As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects in the Hindu Kush Himalayas is increasing. A recent study on the state of a glacier on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau raises questions about the...