Wildlife

A number of Asian countries are going through environmental crisis. Nowhere is the impact felt so seriously than in India, where the crisis threatens to affect survival. It is also impacting biodiversity, ecology and livelihoods. In this context, it becomes important to understand how nature and the current environmental crisis are being addressed in policy discourses.

India escapes impact of cyclone Roanu while it creates havoc in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

Submit complete list of wetlands: NGT to States

Since India became independent in 1947, the central and state governments have introduced various rural development schemes, and have been trying to get them to converge. While this effort hasn't been as impactful on a large scale, there are some success stories. Sarda Panchayat in Sambalpur, Odisha is one.   

Chirimiri Coalfield is a part of Central India Coalfields, located in Koriya district, Chhattisgarh.

New categorisation of industries

Karanataka records failure of winter crops, seeks Rs 1,417 crore Central assistance 

Forest guards in India have fought many things over time in the course of their daily work--poachers, irate citizens, even animals at times! But they are now facing a threat that may well be beyond their capacity to overcome. A threat that is not just responsible for the death of individual animals, but for the destruction of entire groups of species--climate change.

Government to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones

In December 2015, more than forty years after it was conceived, the Government was set to launch India’s ambitious 30-link river interlinking project linking 37 rivers.