Dipanwita Haldar and Suresh Kumar India is the second largest producer of tea after China. Tea requires a moderately hot and humid climate. Climate influences yield, crop distribution and quality. Tea grows best on well-drained fertile acid soil on high lands. Tea grows best in areas with a maximum temperature of 16-32ºC and a well distributed rainfall of about 150 cm per Continue Reading »

Blockchain technology is a decentralized and immutable ledger system that enables secure and transparent transactions or data exchanges. It operates on a distributed network of computers, known as nodes, which collectively validate and record transactions in a chronological and tamper-resistant manner. Each transaction, or block, is cryptographically linked to the previous one, forming a chain of blocks. The decentralized nature Continue Reading »

The power of earth observation, proximal sensing, in-situ observations and their interpretation has tremendously increased, enabling us to perceive the invisible and gain fresh insights into the past and our own identity. Various studies have demonstrated that RS has played a significant role towards archaeological research and in developing a broad understanding of the past. This is because of their Continue Reading »

Authors: Sreyasi Biswas, Charu Singh, and Anjana V S The January of 2024 saw some unusual weather in the Indo-Gangetic belt, including the Northern Indian states of Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh. Unlike any other year, a fairly large number of cold to severe cold waves hit these regions. Dense fog engulfed the cities typically from 5 to 8 in the Continue Reading »

Authors: Sreyasi Biswas and Charu Singh An Atmospheric River (AR) is a long, narrow, and transient filament of enhanced water vapour that transports fresh water from the tropics into the mid-latitudes (Figure 1). These are popularly called ‘Rivers in the Sky’ because like a river, it carries a huge volume of water. In fact, if all its water vapour were Continue Reading »