Jammu and Kashmir Floods: Caught unawares
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 …
Forecasting failure
Met department has not learnt lessons from the Uttarakhand tragedy. It remains ill-equipped
Seeds of hope
Northern Bangladesh successfully fights its age-old famine-like situation by creating a new cropping season and introducing lost indigenous …
Yours unilaterally
Nepal suffers as India builds dykes along a trans-border river without informing the neighbour
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 …
Devastated still
Months after disaster struck Uttarakhand, government has done little to improve people’s lives
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
Himalayan blunders
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 …
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 …
Kaziranga simmers on fringes
People take to streets against eviction notices and tiger reserve tag