Tracking decades-long endosulfan tragedy in Kerala

Down To Earth takes a look at one of the worst and longest-running pesticide poisoning episodes in India and how it culminated with the Supreme …

What's in your honey?

Ayurveda prescribes it for a range of ailments. People eat it for rejuvenation and boosting immunity. An Indian homemaker’s kitchen shelf …

Pesticide-rich food

Agriculture department confirms high pesticide residues

Supreme Court bans endosulfan

Order to be effective till ICMR submits report

Home ministry delayed Plachimada bill

RTI response reveals why bill meant to secure compensation from Coca-Cola has not received president’s assent till now 

Flush and forget

IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste

Last mile smile

Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes

Saving for rainy days

People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis

Pesticide makers build case to get endosulfan ban lifted

Affidavit filed in court claims pesticide is safe

Plachimada relief bill delayed

President yet to receive the bill that will make Coca-Cola pay

E coli outbreak in EU

India alerts ports that receive fruits, vegetables from Europe

Endosulfan banned, conditionally

India agrees to ban the hazardous pesticide globally, asks for exemptions at home

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

CBI can seek Anderson’s extradition

Delhi court gives permission. But is CBI ready?

Think before you drink

Studies confirm energy drinks like Red Bull can be unsafe. India yet to limit their caffeine content

Karnataka bans endosulfan

State appeals to the Centre for a nationwide ban

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Another Kasaragod

Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media …

Endosulfan sufferers don't count

Many endosulfan sufferers in Kerala still not recognised

State of endosulfan

Ban on the pesticide in Kerala ineffective; more children fall victim, shows survey

Salwa Judum: Nemesis of Chhattisgarh's tribals

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A search for a lost friend

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Victims of ‘growth’

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Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history

Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. M N Sharma, the first architect to work with Le …

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …