Amitabh Sinha is Deputy Editor at The Indian Express. He writes on Environment, Climate Change, Water, Science and Technology, Space and Nuclear affairs, and related stuff. He has worked with PTI, Reuters, and BBC before joining The Indian Express in 2007. Amitabh has a PG Diploma in Journalism from IIMC, New Delhi, and a Masters in Public Administration from National University of Singapore.
October 17, 2009 04:07 IST
Following the completion of polling in three states,security forces have begun moving to the Naxal-affected areas where a major offensive against the ultra-left organisations is being planned from next month....
Sat, Oct 17, 2009October 15, 2009 02:26 IST
In an effort to create Indias own knowledge base and generate data and services related to climate change....
Thu, Oct 15, 2009October 06, 2009 08:18 IST
In sheer numbers,even the displacement caused by Partition often described as the greatest human migration in history which saw about 15 million people shift locations....
Tue, Oct 06, 2009October 04, 2009 04:36 IST
Estimates sent by the state governments have given an official number to what has been known informally for a very long time....
Sun, Oct 04, 2009September 30, 2009 03:32 IST
The flexibility shown by India in recent weeks on its stand on climate change is hardly producing the desired response from the developed world....
Wed, Sep 30, 2009September 27, 2009 03:42 IST
Maybe this is the price you are required to pay to keep yourself and the country secure from terrorists.....
Sun, Sep 27, 2009September 17, 2009 09:23 IST
Will reflect steps already taken or coming,bust myth of Indian intransigence. But no pressure,no legally binding targets....
Thu, Sep 17, 2009September 17, 2009 04:10 IST
After extensive discussions on the different threats to internal security at the annual DGPs conference,senior police officials will now turn their focus....
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
September 16, 2009 09:49 IST
Kapil Sibal is trying to realise the CSIR varsity plan he nurtured as Minister for Science & Technology in the last UPA.
Wed, Sep 16, 2009September 16, 2009 04:58 IST
Appointment of an interlocutor for talks on the Gorkhaland issue as also over the Jammu and Kashmir and Nagaland problems...
Wed, Sep 16, 2009September 16, 2009 03:27 IST
The government has finally moved to fill the top posts in some of the leading cultural institutions in the country,lying vacant...
Wed, Sep 16, 2009September 15, 2009 04:19 IST
First it was Kazakhstan,then Namibia and now Mongolia. In its quest for obtaining fuel for its nuclear power plants,India has been...
Tue, Sep 15, 2009September 14, 2009 03:46 IST
Despite the intervention of the Prime Minister himself,many of the top cultural institutions in the country,including the Archaeological Survey of India....
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
September 05, 2009 04:34 IST
Home Minister P Chidambaram is travelling to the US early next week to hold consultations with officials and law enforcement agencies....
Sat, Sep 05, 2009August 31, 2009 04:10 IST
To bridge the huge shortfall of police personnel,the Home Ministry has requested the 13th Finance Commission to scale up resources of state governments....
Mon, Aug 31, 2009August 30, 2009 04:18 IST
The premature death of the much-feted Chandrayaan-I mission may be a big setback for the Indian Space Research Organisation....
Sun, Aug 30, 2009
August 28, 2009 08:50 IST
Two of the leading scientists behind Pokharan-II tests,including former President A P J Abdul Kalam,said there were no doubts that the experiments had yielded desired results and were a complete success.
Fri, Aug 28, 2009August 27, 2009 05:14 IST
Countering the highly exaggerated predictions by some developed countries for Indias greenhouse gas emissions in near future...
Thu, Aug 27, 2009August 26, 2009 03:37 IST
With the United States,and a few other developed countries,dead against any extension to the current global arrangement on climate change...
Wed, Aug 26, 2009August 13, 2009 09:03 IST
Google Earths got some competition now from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),which today unveiled its beta version of Bhuvan....
Thu, Aug 13, 2009
August 11, 2009 09:20 IST
Greenpeace India,an inveterate critic of the Govt on a range of issues turned to UPAs youngest Minister Agatha Sangma for its latest photo-op but will now have to stage it without her.
Tue, Aug 11, 2009August 11, 2009 02:18 IST
Its official now. Two consecutive weeks of dry spell have forced the Indian Meteorological Department to make another downward revision in its long-term monsoon forecast....
Tue, Aug 11, 2009August 10, 2009 09:02 IST
Govt has started the process of withdrawing a few thousand paramilitary personnel from Jammu & Kashmir,to be deployed in Naxalism-hit areas.
Mon, Aug 10, 2009August 09, 2009 02:19 IST
Independence Day is likely to bring relief to the people in Delhi this year in the form of rains. The Capital,which has received barely two days of monsoon showers this season,is expected to start getting rains around August 15...
Sun, Aug 09, 2009August 08, 2009 05:13 IST
PM meets Chief Secys today on food security; 0.3% may be shaved off GDP....
Sat, Aug 08, 2009



