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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicRiver pollution

Topic: River pollution

Ganga has been the lab for this BHU professor. It has earned him a global honour now

Professor Jitendra Pandey has been invited to deliver the prestigious Sir Stephen Schneider Lecture. He is the first biological scientist and Asian scholar to receive the distinction.

Chhath devotees pray submerged in toxic Yamuna foam, anti-foam chemicals merely an eyewash

As part of Chhath Puja preparations, Delhi Jal Board has been sprinkling anti-foam chemicals in Yamuna. This measure, however, has no effect on river pollution levels.

Maharashtra’s holy Indrayani is now ugly green. Everyone’s playing blame game, CM to govt bodies

The Indrayani had started foaming in 2023 just before the Kartiki Ekadashi, when lakhs of Warkaris congregate to mark the period when Saint Dnyaneshwar entered life-long samadhi.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.