‘Humans could drink the groundwater almost dry in parts of India, southern Europe and the US’ WASHINGTON: Groundwater resources could be depleted in the next few decades in dry areas of the world where people use lots of water for drinking and irrigating crops, researchers said on Thursday. The research was presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical …

By Babar Sattar There is a sinister narrative that is being aggressively marketed by prophets of doom these days. Its bottom line is that the heads of state institutions are puppets lacking free will, human agency and integrity and are incapable of making decisions honestly and objectively. A new industry is booming within our mainstream media backed by social media. …

By Amir Hussain Culture, like other key concepts of sociology, is a contested notion and therefore cannot be reduced to a homogenous set of practices. This piece will not discuss the sociological approaches of what the notion of culture entails. Instead, it is about how the popular notion of culture can be used as a force of social cohesion and …

By C.J. Polychroniou / Truthout The United States is rapidly declining on numerous fronts — collapsing infrastructure, a huge gap between haves and have-nots, stagnant wages, high infant mortality rates, the highest incarceration rate in the world — and it continues to be the only country in the advanced world without a universal health care system. Thus, questions about the …