Sikkim will be the first Indian state to go wholly organic. But lack of markets can become counterproductive
Ganga bazaar
Crafted tales
Cast away
After 7.9 shock
The earthquake that shook Nepal and northern India underscores the urgency to understand the seismicity of the Himalayas and ...
Blurring identities
Recent cases in the US and Argentina have reignited the debate on granting "personhood" to animals
Rs 16 lakh crore
This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is ...
Daunting journey
Carbon particles from biomass burning and vehicles could be discolouring the Taj Mahal. Down To Earth returns to the ...
Potato test for government
The crash in potato price is triggering a wave of suicides in several states. Will the NDA government's ambitious ...
‘Faults inactive for long period could pose greater hazard’
Chan Lung-sang, professor at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, speaks to Kundan Pandey about the probability ...
‘We know where earthquakes can strike, but never when’
Mike Searle, lecturer at the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University and senior research fellow in Worcester College, Oxford, ...
‘There will be a day when we will be able to predict quakes’
Enough strain has accumulated in the Nepal region to cause a great earthquake. But how big it is going ...
‘Many seismic gaps in Himalayas capable of producing powerful earthquakes’
In an interview to Kundan Pandey, Supriyo Mitra, associate professor with the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian ...
Rs 60 crore for 250,000 panchayats
The Centre's decision to reduce Panchayati Raj Ministry's budget and transfer its schemes to states has left the ministry ...
Centre ignores certifying agency
Private players set up forest certification body even as the ministry, which manages 90 per cent of the ...
Dry cleaning Hussainsagar
Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing ...
Don't ignore the deadly sign
Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit ...
High on nectar
Demand for neera, the fresh sap of young coconut flowers, is rising with advances in food preservation technologies. It's ...
On wrong wavelength
Twenty years after the Supreme Court asserted that people have a right over radio waves, community radio continues to ...
Gujarat's burgeoning crocodilopolis
Vadodara plans a park for crocodiles to keep their numbers and attacks on humans in check
Raining troubles
Little-understood western disturbances have been blamed for most of the freak weather events in India in the past decade. ...
So long, Suvin
The finest and longest staple cotton in the world, and part of India's cotton heritage, is on the verge ...
Sewage pond called Mansarovar
To restore Shahpura lake, also known as Mansarovar, Bhopal Municipal Corporation must innovate its sewage treatment system
Power of concentration
India has every reason to push for concentrated solar power projects. But the technology has failed to pick up ...
Last pangolins
The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal