A series on health conditions that disproportionately affects marginalised communities.

Jan Chetna Manch, Bokaro (JCMB), is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working with marginalized populations in the Chandankiari block of Bokaro district, Jharkhand. The study was conducted in rura...

The government in Suriname this year said it planned to evict illegal settlers in the Amazon Rainforest, and possibly send many of them back to their home countries. But eviction has proven much more…

ALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming

Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold of landlordism and poverty in Nepal’s southern plains

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.

रायलसीमा में बवाल मंच पर CM चंद्रबाबू नायडू पवन कल्याण अनंत अंबानी। वित्त मंत्री जो बोलीं सुनो जनता बोली पहले नौकरी दो! सिटी नारे हूटिंग वित्त मंत्री को रोकना पड़ा भाषण। चंद्रबाबू नायडू को उठकर कहना प...

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

It was the second time in a week that an outfit with purported RSS links had raided the institute, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Gram Panchayat (ABGP) having allegedly attacked the students on Sept 2...

How a Christian king and a Muslim scholar spent fifteen years finding the pepper coast (Palermo, 1138–54)

Until Google renamed it “Tarluvada IT Hub and Data Centre Hub” on Google Maps, this village outside Visakhapatnam was known for marigolds, roses and jasmine, grown alongside cashew and teak.

Nobody knows how much the world’s militaries actually emit. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, military emissions have been effectively carved out of international climate accounting

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The Rise of English Imperialism

LOL! Best Hitler-bunker-scene rendition so far! “You didn’t tell me these were the same Persians that defeated the Romans.” "Have Bari Weiss write why high oil prices are actually a good thing..."

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Desis of the Persian Empire

Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure has delivered an environmental blowback that is now poisoning Israel’s own water supply, as a 60-mile bloom of microalgae and…

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Eradication programs do not usually fail for lack of money. They fail when a disease gets quiet enough that someone decides looking is optional.

Later that night, a group of men identifying themselves as BJP supporters allegedly went to the professor’s home and warned him of dire consequences if he did not 'mend his ways'

For a Goan, being off the roll costs more than a vote: Dialysis to transplants, state health support scheme open only to voters

In recent times, labour with just a few years of exposure to silica dust in quartzite mine factories are succumbing to silicosis. Lung capacity swiftly declines; theirs is a death foretold

Countercurrents is pleased to serialise “The Latest News of Abu Yusuf al-Tahhan”, a novel by Palestinian writer Salim Nazzal. Beginning with this chapter, we will publish one chapter each week.

Vegetables grown along a stretch of the Yamuna near Delhi are contaminated with multiple heavy metals at concentrations that exceed food safety limits and raise potential health concerns for consumers, University of Delhi researchers have cautioned. Their study covered only a small stretch of the Yamuna — a 1,379km river that runs through seven states — but their findings raise the possibility that similar contamination could occur elsewhere in the country where crops are grown using polluted water.

YALA, Sri Lanka – One early morning in July 2016, six wildlife officers waited in a patch of scrubland close to a small pond in southern Sri Lanka. They had received information that poachers had…

The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.