Chandigarh/Shimla: What started as an anti-mosque protest in Shimla’s Sanjauli earlier this month has now spilled over to other parts of the state. Now the issue is not just the razing of ‘illegal’ mosque structures but also limiting the entry of ‘outsiders’, a…

Stitching sustainability: Dying art of rafu can help mitigate climate change For the last 25 years, Mohmad Masab, now 42, has been repairing clothes at Lajpat Nagar market in Delhi using traditional rafu—meticulous cloth repair. Sitting at a corner outside…

Workdays in the orchards have come down to 70-90 days against the earlier 120-150 days, making orchard workers shift to construction labour and other similar work Shimla, Himachal Pradesh: When Sushma (16) from Seemapur village of Nepal reached the apple orchard…

The installation of solar water pumps has transformed the lives of the Buddhist nuns at the Pangmo Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, enabling them to maintain their daily prayer routine, especially during heavy snowfall when fetching water becomes challenging. Pangmo is…

Warhead found in Andaman beach On January 4, a live Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) warhead was discovered nearly 3 km inland on the shores of the Middle Andaman Island. Identified as a Chinese-manufactured Type 69 (Chinese RPG-7) DZGI-40 explosive, the…

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ forest department and tribal welfare department released eight Andaman wild pigs (Sus scrofa andamanensis), bred through a captive breeding programme, in the Jarawa Reserve Forest in October 2022. In a recent publication in the Indian Forester, which…