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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Republic Day celebrations across India showcase the nation’s unity, diversity, and commitment to its constitutional ideals. However, in Manipur, the occasion serves as an unsettling reminder of ...

Imphal: In a significant move against drug abuse and trafficking, authorities destroyed a total of 314.471 kg of seized narcotics at the Shija Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Facility, Lamdeng, in ...

Ukhrul: The story of Catholicism in Manipur begins with a quiet yet transformative chapter in the Tangkhul community. Fifty-five years after the arrival of Christianity in the state, Catholicism found ...

Irrespective of Indian corporate honchos’ take on longer work weeks, employees need the right to disconnect. Memes, doodles and sharp-witted one-liners were all the rage on social media immediately ...