Since May 2, a large number of dust storms have swept north India, harbingering the beginning of a new trend that is being linked to climate change
Shalini Sharma
Shalini Sharma is a graduate from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, with over three years of journalistic experience. She reports on politics, agriculture, foreign policy, human rights and other issues.

Even as the NDMA reported a drastic reduction in the number of heatwave-related deaths, there is a sense that with climate change on the rise India’s silent disaster is going to get worse in the future, and to tackle it there's a need to look for long term measures

The SC verdict in the ongoing case to ascertain the constitutional validity of Aadhaar will have far-reaching consequences

Even as farmers who had travelled 180 km from Nashik to Mumbai went back home, the Left-affiliated farmer group is continuing its agitation in other parts of the country

According to the findings of a fact-finding team, the violence was perpetrated by fringe elements in collusion with the police and the administration played a partisan role, allowing the mob to run amok

Given that a majority of Indians consume meat, why is a democratically elected government trying to dictate what people should eat?
With China taking greater interest in the internal politics of Nepal and funding several projects in the country, all eyes in the neighbourhood are on the Himalayan nation. However, as most of the projects awarded to Chinese firms lie in limbo and mired in cost-overrun, it is time that Kathmandu pauses to evaluate its engagement with the dragon
Shalini Sharma
As the gaze of the world shifts to the status of mental healthcare, Hardnews visits the only State-run half-way home in Delhi and looks at the status of treated mental patients across India
Floods cause devastation because we have destroyed nature’s system for absorbing excess rainfall. So, is nature disrupting our lives or are we disrupting the natural order?
Shalini Sharma Delhi
The IT BPES industry in India is haunted by the spectre of mass automation and layoffs. How are the employees coping? Not too well, as Hardnews finds out
Shalini Sharma Delhi
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, has been leading a campaign to cut down imports from China. At the heart of the matter are the outstanding diplomatic issues with Beijing pertaining to the border in the east and Beijing’s all-weather friendship with neighbouring Pakistan
Shalini Sharma Delhi
Recounting the one-year period that has passed since the coup attempt took place, the Turkish Ambassador said that 300 institutions that had been shut down have been reopened and lauded India’s decision to stand by Turkey at the time
Shalini Sharma Delhi