Urbanisation

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The more humans had carved up the environment – building roads, clear-cutting trees and setting up palm oil plantation – the more uniform these actions became. (Photo: AFP)

Urban expansion; major treat to chimps

Chimpanzees in the wild reduced to 'forest ghettos'.

05 Jun 2019 10:44 AM

Travelling, working outdoors or exercising in open spaces enveloped by smog, with any protective masks is detrimental to health. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Save yourself from the smog

Here’s all that you need to know about smog and its dangerous impacts on our health.

26 Apr 2019 9:25 PM

Online retail is estimated to jump four-fold to USD 73 billion by 2022 as millennials are shifting from traditional shopping to e-commerce taking advantage of cheap smartphones and high-speed data, according to property consultant ANAROCK. (Photo: Pixabay)

Online retail to jump over four times at USD 73 bn by 2022: ANAROCK

The size of online retail stood at USD 17.8 billion in 2017.

03 Oct 2018 3:14 PM

Investors eyes smaller cities realty, says JLL

Proptech is also attracting attention from retail investors recently.

10 Aug 2018 1:21 AM

Bird diversity dips in city’s Garhimandu forest

Comes down from 48 in March to 34 in May due to loss of dense forest cover.

31 May 2018 4:34 AM

Short trips always provide the much needed emotional release and helps me cope with the constant strain of managing personal and business matter

Micro vacay, macro fun

Krishen Seth, chairman, Pearl Group of Companies, loves going on solo trips to the mountains to breathe in fresh air.

18 May 2018 12:12 AM

More than half the country’s labour force still depends on agriculture, though agriculture accounts for just 15 per cent of gross domestic product.

Indian peasants cry for justice

With very small parcels of land families are finding difficult to make farming a viable, sustainable and subsistence business.

22 Dec 2017 1:42 AM

Scientists have found that much of the Indus civilisation thrived around an extinct river. (Photo: Pixabay)

Indus civilisation did not develop around flowing river

Archaeological evidence shows that many of the settlements in the Indus was developed along the banks of a river called the Ghaggar-Hakra.

29 Nov 2017 2:40 PM

WHO projects that more than two thirds of the world population will be overweight or obese by 2030 unless corrective action is taken.

Eat healthy: An idea whose time has come - smaller food portions

Controlling portion sizes may help prevent food wastage and rationalise intake at a time obesity-related diseases are the number one killer.

02 Jun 2017 10:51 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Can Modi revise social compact? 2019 will tell

The BJP came to power at the national level in 2014 by disrupting traditional identity-based votebanks.

02 Mar 2017 6:37 AM

Getting back to the roots

Recreate some of the most ancient Pongal recipes that have managed to live through centuries!

12 Jan 2017 12:17 AM

According to the first of its kind study, one in 10 (seven per cent to 11 per cent) cases of dementia among those who live within 50 metres of a major road could be attributable to traffic exposure.

Living next to traffic ups dementia?

Study found no link between traffic exposure and Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.

05 Jan 2017 1:22 AM

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