Chetan Chauhan

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The capsizing of the Liberia-flagged cargo vessel MSC ELSA 3 carrying plastic pellets in several containers off the coast of Kochi in Kerala is indicative of how plastics can impact marine biodiversity. Relief workers found it difficult to collect plastic pellets spread across the coast from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram from the containers that had drifted towards the coast, pushing the state government to declare the incident as a “state-specific” disaster.

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

A study in April 2025 by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) said that annual winter snow in Himalaya in the past four years has been lowest in decades and in May it declared Yala glacier to be dead, the first for Nepal, and a rare glacial event.

1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

India in 2022 introduced a new e-waste regulation, replacing the E-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules in 2011, introducing a trading mechanism where the producer could buy certificates from a recycler to meet its annual e-waste management targets under the regulation. In 2022, India generated 1.6 million metric tonnes of e-waste, which corresponds to an increase of approximately 126% compared to the year 2018. Projections estimate that this figure could soar to around 14 million tonnes by 2030.

2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

Pakistan has promised reciprocal moves and warned that any disruption to its water supply would be considered “an act of war.” Pakistan has decided to suspend the Simla agreement that provided for border management between the two countries. The Indus River has supported life for thousands of years since the Harappan civilisation, which flourished around 2600 to 1900 BCE in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.

2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has allied with the All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for next year’s Tamil Nadu assembly elections, 19 months after snapping ties, making the contest bipolar with the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led grouping. The AIADMK and the BJP contested the 2019 parliamentary and the 2021 assembly elections together, but the DMK-led alliance got the better of them. Their ties soured with K Annamalai’s appointment as the BJP state chief in July 2021.