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Topic: pollutants

Smog’s unseen impact: pollutants on our food plates

Air pollution not only harms health but also lowers protein, iron and micronutrients in food, risking nutrition and food security.

Cement and carbon industry has potential to be carbon-negative. Polluter to climate solution

Numerous solutions have a role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, and combinations of solutions can provide it with the best chance of reaching its net zero goals.

India’s poor face disproportionately higher risk of dying from air pollution than the rich — study

Study finds high-income households produce a majority of ambient or outdoor air pollution, but health risks are still shouldered more by lower-income households.

93% of world’s children breathe air that could kill them before adulthood: WHO report

Children exposed to pollution have degrading health in the long term, leading them to develop childhood cancer, asthma, and heart disease.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.