Mumbai Eye: Fifteen years on, city’s ‘Ferris Wheel’ project stuck on paper

A skyline view across the River Thames to the Millennium Wheel and the Houses of Parliament taken before the Capital 95.8 ‘Lights Out London’ campaign on June 21, 2007 in London, England. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Story so far: In its biggest-ever budget, Mumbai’s civic body – the Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC), unveiled its plan to construct … Read more

One Health is fast emerging as the new default setting, but it won’t be easy 

One Health (OH) has emerged as a contemporary rage in public health discourse following the COVID-19 pandemic, and is increasingly central to the organisation of health services and disease control programmes. Globally, OH is led by the ‘Quadripartite’ – a collaboration of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment … Read more

The Hindu On Books newsletter: 100 Indian short stories, Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist, Srikar Raghavan’s Karnataka and more

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The longlist of the second edition of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was announced last week, and it is dominated by British writers and debutants. The inaugural prize went to Naomi Klein for Dopplegangers, in which she deals with the aftermath of being mistaken for Naomi Wolf who … Read more

At this Chennai children’s hospital, doctors facilitate recovery in ICU through early mobilisation

A child in the paediatric ICU at KKCTH, Chennai, receives sunlight through special windows, part of the hospital’s effort to provide natural light for better sleep and reduce exposure to harsh artificial lights | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital (KKCTH) has been implementing early … Read more

Scientists make plans to keep spacefarers from contaminating other worlds

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 2017, in Trump’s previous term of office, he promised to “establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars”. And his billionaire adviser Elon … Read more

What is an earthquake swarm?

A bell tower of an Orthodox church in the town of Oia on the earthquake-truck island of Santorini, Greece, is visible as the main town of Fira is lit by the sun in the background, February 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP An earthquake swarm occurs when multiple seismic events of comparable intensity strike a … Read more

How Karnataka’s new Ordinance proposes to crack down on microfinance institutions

The story so far On February 12, 2025, after days of deliberations, the State government promulgated the Karnataka Micro Loan and Small Loan (Prevention of Coercive Actions) Ordinance, 2025, which aims to crack down on unregistered and unlicensed microfinance institutions (MFI) and moneylending agencies or organisations that employ forceful means to recover loans given to … Read more