High in the misty peaks of Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley, where rivers carve deep canyons and dense forests echo with birdsong, the Idu Mishmi community has thrived for centuries, guided by an ...

A woman using a hand pump to draw groundwater in India. Image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). A recent analysis has revealed that India’s groundwater contains pollutants in excess ...

HMPV infections can look like other lung illnesses and it can be hard to make a correct diagnosis. Over the last few weeks, the Human Metapneumovirus or HMPV has emerged as a significant public health ...

Traditional fisherfolk in West Bengal gather at a khoti, which is a fish landing centre where fishers gather during the peak fishing season, typically from September to March, to engage in traditional ...

Cancer is a global threat to mankind. Over the years, significant understanding of the causes, behaviour, and drugs required to treat various cancers has accumulated. However, therapeutic procedures ...

Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the public health field. Some have called one of the US president’s first ...

Imphal: N Kayisii, the sitting Naga MLA from Tadubi Assembly Constituency in Senapati district, passed away on Saturday at the age of 58. According to reliable sources, the MLA, who had been battling ...

Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back in the Oval Office was one titled Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness. It unilaterally renamed “the area ...

Freshly elected US president Donald Trump has exercised his usual degree of modesty and named his newly launched cryptocurrency or memecoin, $Trump. And like the man ...

On his first day back in office as United States president, Donald Trump gave formal notice of his nation’s exit from the Paris Agreement – a vital global treaty seeking to rein in climate change.

The Health and Family Welfare Department of South Salmara Mankachar District has achieved a remarkable milestone in increasing institutional deliveries, reflecting a concerted effort to improve ...

Shillong: Meghalaya, once celebrated as the educational hub of Northeast India, has found itself at the bottom of the Ministry of Education’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) for 2021-22. The dropout ...