Letting the wind flow freely is the secret to cooling our cities
The Hinduby Sambavi Parthasarathy·4d ago
India’s cities are bustling with taller buildings and more densely packed populations. The hotter days in many of these cities also come with high humidity, and can make the experience of heat seem...
Urban spider found building soundproof webs to keep noise out
The Hinduby Vrinda Ravi Kumar·4d ago
The next time you sweep away a cobweb without a second thought, consider this: the silken structure is an engineering marvel.
How urban India is reclaiming spaces for its communities
The Hinduby Sreeparna Chakrabarty·4d ago
A café on the terrace of a prominent hospital in Maharashtra’s Pimpri Chinchwad, an Anganwadi under a flyover in Vadodara and a children’s park in place of a waste dump yard in a slum colony in...
Successful urban birds sport different colours from unsuccessful ones
The Hinduby Monika Mondal·4d ago
In 2016, when Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo at the University of Granada in Spain met Kaspar Delhey, an expert in bird coloration at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, a new...
Cities warming due to combined effect of urbanisation, climate change
The Hinduby S S Sethi; V Vinoj·4d ago
Recently, for two consecutive days, Delhi reported daytime temperature above 50 degree C, the highest ever recorded in the city.
Explained | What is relative humidity and why does it matter on a hot day?
The Hinduby Vasudevan Mukunth·4d ago
Relative humidity is a simple concept as weather phenomena go – but it has significant, far-reaching consequences for how we must take care of ourselves on a hot or wet day.
Tragic unpreparedness: on the Maharashtra heatwave incident
The Hinduby Authors; Contributors·4d ago
The state of the ongoing global climate crisis is such that India is going to have hotter hot days and more of them every year.
TPCC chief reiterates demand for BC/OBC column in Census-2027, assures greater political share for BCs
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·4d ago
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud said that the Congress was committed to securing a greater political share for Backward Classes (BCs) and asserted that a...
The Hindu profiles on Popular Mobilisation Forces
The Hinduby Stanly Johny·4d ago
On June 13, 2014, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq’s top Shia cleric, issued a fatwa asking Iraqis to join the fight against terrorism.
The afterglow of the Asian cricket gold: What India's Asian Games triumph means for its future?
The Hinduby R Kaushik·4d ago
To be installed the overwhelming favourite ahead of any major sporting extravaganza is a double-edged sword.
How Tagore’s songs were ahead of their time in form and feeling
The Hinduby Shantanu Datta·4d ago
Addressing a tutorial on the English romantics, a professor concluded: “Read Tagore, I implore you, to understand how unlike poets such as Shelley and Keats, he did not struggle to reconcile...
Gym trainer stabbed to death at party in Bengaluru
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·4d ago
A 25-year-old gym trainer was stabbed to death during a fight at a party in an apartment complex at Sahakar Nagar in Bengaluru on October 3 night. The deceased has been identified as Nandan.
Madras High Court dismisses case against building Tamil Nadu’s new Secretariat at Pattinapakkam
The Hinduby Mohamed Imranullah S·4d ago
The Madras High Court on Monday (October 5, 2026) dismissed as withdrawn a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed by a lawyer, seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to abandon...
Messi’s Keralam visit row: ED to register money-laundering case
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·4d ago
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) is set to register a case into the alleged financial misappropriation linked to the failed attempt to bring the Argentina national football team and its...
Sanjay Raut, Dipke demand removal of MPSC chairman
The Hinduby PTI·4d ago
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut and CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday (October 4, 2026) extended their support to MPSC aspirants agitating here and demanded the removal of the chairman of the...
Madras High Court dismisses as withdrawn a plea to declare ‘Vettri Payanam’ scheme unconstitutional
The Hinduby Mohamed Imranullah S·4d ago
The Madras High Court on Monday (October 5, 2026) dismissed as withdrawn a writ petition filed by a private bus operator from Erode district, challenging the constitutional validity of the Tamil...
Disasters in Western Ghats should ring alarm bells: Medha Patkar
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·4d ago
“Landslides, terrace collapses and other such disasters on the Western Ghats should open our eyes to the dangers of environmental destruction.
Lawyers, CPI(M) supporters’ office face attack in West Bengal; Mamata calls attacks ‘unacceptable’
The Hinduby Shrabana Chatterjee·4d ago
Several lawyers, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders, and party offices in West Bengal have come under repeated attacks in the State in the last few days.
Odisha government announces to hold student union election after a gap of eight years
The Hinduby Satyasundar Barik·4d ago
The Odisha government on Monday (Octobeer 5, 2026) announced that student union elections will be held on higher education campuses after a gap of eight years.
Bihar MLC polls: JD(U) faces dissent; RLM to back own candidate
The Hinduby Amarnath Tewary·4d ago
Three of the four MLAs of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) — a ruling NDA ally in Bihar — have decided to support their party’s own candidate, Ram Pukar Sinha, in the Saran Teachers constituency for...
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