Nagraj Adve

Sep 27, 2024 | theindiaforum.in | Nagraj Adve

Growing concern about global warming and its accelerating impacts worldwide have catalysed support for nuclear power in many places. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from nuclear power – while not zero as is often claimed – are much lower than those from fossil fuel combustion. Bituminous coal, for instance, which India uses a lot, emits 93 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million Btu. Nuclear reactors, on the other hand, do not produce carbon dioxide while running.

Jul 23, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Nagraj Adve |Greeshma Kuthar |Ayesha Minhaz

In June this year, northern India turned into a dystopian nightmare: first, hundreds of fruit bats dropped dead from trees as the mercury touched 45° Celsius in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, giving rise to fears that the animals could spread disease. Then, in Jharkhand, a troop of over 30 thirsty monkeys jumped into a well and drowned. A similar fate struck a pack of jackals in the State.

Jul 23, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Nagraj Adve |Divya Gandhi |Greeshma Kuthar |Ayesha Minhaz

We are experiencing the future. The global average temperature over the past year has been 1.6°C higher than the pre-industrial average. June 2024 was the 13th consecutive month in which global average temperatures not just broke but shattered the record for the month. One factor is the recent El Niño, the periodic oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon that releases some of the massive heat stored in the oceans.

Jul 22, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Nagraj Adve |Ayesha Minhaz |Prathyush Parasuraman

“No freedom. Fear. Complete fear!” shouted Kan Linn, repeating the word “fear” over and over again. The 42-year-old teacher from the Sagaing region of Myanmar had been relatively quiet for an hour when his colleagues spoke about the situation in Myanmar, only occasionally nodding or shaking his head. His sudden outburst was a sign of helplessness, a common emotion that seems to have set into most refugees who fled Myanmar in the years following the onset of civil war in 2021.

Jul 21, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Nagraj Adve |R. Ramachandran |Partha P. Majumder

There is some hope among lawyers and members of the AAP that their party’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal may get bail in the foreseeable future in the cases activated by different agencies, as could his right hand, the former Deputy Chief Minister of the city State, Manish Sisodia. This is based on the expectation that the judiciary might show greater independence after the pincer of single party autocracy was loosened by the June 4 mandate.