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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicWorld Environment Day

Topic: World Environment Day

Naming trees after Indian ragas, diverse tree plantation initiative by the Grammy Jury Pandit Prodyut Mukherjee

Gulancha tree was planted in memory of the martyred of Operation Sindoor, a Palash sapling was planted for the residents of Nabina and Khanika Home, and the third tree, an Amaltas was dedicated to the land of Santiniketan.

Modi to kickstart ‘Aravalli Green Wall’ campaign to reforest world’s oldest mountain range

The Aravalli range will also be developed for safaris, nature parks and trekking to involve communities in the campaign.

SubscriberWrites: World Environment Day in 2023

According to United Nations Environment Programme, human produce about 430 million tonnes of plastic per year.

Mamata’s ‘RAM-ZAN’ politics and India’s garbage menace

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On World Environment Day, a look at the global green problems killing Mother Nature

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day is ‘Beat Air Pollution’, which assumes importance for India as it is facing a major air quality crisis.

On World Environment Day, how a Rajasthan village is saving the smallest cranes in the world

In Kheechan, each household keeps aside a part of its agriculture produce for the demoiselle cranes, who turn up in thousands each year.

Last Laughs: Amit Shah turns to Shiv Sena and saving Kashmir from plastic… pellets

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Jute can be India’s answer to the plastic problem

The need of the hour is to put serious efforts to revive the jute industry and make jute products feasible alternative to plastics for the common man.

Greening may not be the answer to a warming planet

On World Environment Day, let’s look at the greening trend that is fast becoming the crutch of climate change deniers worldwide.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.