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Ready for only tourists

Uttarakhand government has carried out rehabilitation projects only in tourist circles and ignored other areas that were hit by floods last …

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Forecasting failure

Met department has not learnt lessons from the Uttarakhand tragedy. It remains ill-equipped

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Seeds of hope

Northern Bangladesh successfully fights its age-old famine-like situation by creating a new cropping season and introducing lost indigenous …

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Yours unilaterally

Nepal suffers as India builds dykes along a trans-border river without informing the neighbour

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Eye on the storm

Cyclone Phailin has not taken many lives but has left behind a trail of destruction that severely cripples people’s livelihood. What did …

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Devastated still

Months after disaster struck Uttarakhand, government has done little to improve people’s lives

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New dams to burden Uttarakhand, heighten disaster risk

Districts worst hit by the floods are also the ones with maximum hydropower projects in the pipeline 

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Himalayan blunders

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Can faith heal?

Billed as the largest gathering of humanity in recorded history, Maha Kumbh has commenced in Allahabad. Over the next few weeks, pilgrims …

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Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people …

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Kaziranga simmers on fringes

People take to streets against eviction notices and tiger reserve tag

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