The 2025 monsoon has eloquently highlighted the augmentation in the dispositions to disaster in Himalayas. The pattern of increased natural hazards as a result of climate change and uncontrolled development is quite disturbing following a continuous succession of devastating cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir resulting in death and destruction on a massive scale.

The Tensions And Uncertainty Renewed Summits between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump have placed Indian foreign policy in renewed state of complexity and uncertainty after the August 2025 Alaska U.S.-Russian Summit. While friendly, the visit did not produce major breakthroughs, and its results have been directly at odds with India’s most basic strategic and economic interests.

A recent 2025 census held by the forest department have recorded a spurt in the count of estuarine crocodiles in the SBR, including some really heartwarming numbers of hatchlings— a rarity and good news value in the changed mangrove dynamics.

A supply chain optimisation software, Anna Chakra, has been deployed in 30 out of 31 States/union territories in India in a major digital push to the Public Distribution System (PDS). Developed in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), IIT Delhi’s FITT and Department of Food and Public Distribution, this tool helps improve the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and environment sustainability of grain distribution to more than 81 crore beneficiaries.

A recent study has found a unique genetic association behind alarmingly low rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the Sahariya tribe in central India. This finding may partly explain why the TBthe TB rate in this community is so much higher than the national mean.