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Agriculture|Farmers

ले मशालें चल पड़े हैं

हजारों किसानों के मार्च से घबराकर महाराष्ट्र सरकार ने आ…

Water|Water Conservation

एकता के सूत्र में पिरोता सूखा

मानसून के दौरान बारिश की हर बूंद को सहेजने के लिए महाराष�…

Natural Disasters

Maharashtra heads towards a drier drought

While last year, the state’s 14,679 villages were hit by drought, this time 20,000 villages are already facing drought-like conditions

Small farms can be profitable

Ramesh Chander Dagar, an organic farmer from Akbarpur Barota village, Sonipat, Haryana demonstrates how

Climate Change

Rise after the fall

Sikkim, once the world's largest producer of large cardamom, is trying to regain its lost glory. Can it achieve the feat in the face of a …

Forests

In carbon negative Sikkim, emissions are on the rise

A preliminary report by the Sikkim government suggests the green state is carbon-negative, but emissions are on the rise

Agriculture

Centre washes its hands off drought relief by introducing new parameters

Thousands of villages in Maharashtra are water stressed but will not receive help from the Centre because they fall short of the new definition …

Environment

'Thunderstorm is the most challenging segment of weather prediction'

K J Ramesh explains how this season’s thunderstorms is due to a peculiar condition wherein heating in north and northwestern India has …

Agriculture

Unpredictable weather, unreliable insurance, unbelievable profit to companies

Farmers across India suffered heavy losses when the monsoon turned out to be a non-starter. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the government'…

Agriculture

Harvest of losses

Will the loan waiver announced by the Maharashtra government help alleviate farmers' plight?

Natural Disasters

Drought unites people

1,300 drought-prone Maharashtra villages build watershed structures on their own to harvest every drop of rain this monsoon

Water

Bid for Mahadayi

Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?

Environment

A risky route

A Rs 12,000-crore coastal road project in Mumbai is facing stiff resistance from fishers, urban planners and environmentalists. But, the …

Agriculture

In-depth coverage: Drought, but why

Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management

Natural Disasters

Marathwada's dry story

How poor policies pushed the region into one of its worst droughts ever

Waste

Mumbai's burning question

A week-long fire at the Deonar dumping ground has put the focus on Mumbai's garbage crisis. The answer lies in its unique partnership between …

Backdoor democracy

Central directives on coastal zones could be used to circumvent rules

Dismal picture of Maharashtra's environment

The water supply data in rural areas

Citizens' reports indict Gujarat government for Surat floods

The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city

"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"

Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …

Slumdog sleuths unearth scam

Housing authority was rehabilitating them in illegally built multi-storeys

EU rejects Indian grapes

Contains lihocin, a growth regulator not regulated in India

Cost of closing Deonar: Rs 3,500 crore

Public interest petition alleges irregularities in project to close landfill

‘Private helipads, a must for Mumbai’

They will improve response to terror attacks: Maharashtra government

RTI rap for two officers

Rs 10,000 salary cut for delay in giving information

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