Victoria agrees to central control over rivers

Budget 2015 gives drought-hit Marathwada a miss

Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands

Lift your head from the sand

PacifiCorp Energy flays study on salmon migration

Letters

Will Narayan Rane’s loss in Maharashtra mean better protection for Western Ghats?

Congress leader who contested Assembly elections from Kudal in Sindhudurg district is known to be a key player in the mining lobby in the entire …

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Floods in north and east India kill 120 people

Release of flood waters from Nepal affect large parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Will Maharashtra's decision to charge fee for green clearance lead to greater transparency?

Industry objects saying it will increase their costs; activists say it can prove beneficial since state environment appraisal committee and EIA …

US seeks strict scrutiny of World Bank lending to hydroelectric projects

External evaluation process to ascertain effectiveness of lendings recommended

Science and Technology - Briefs

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Mahan at all costs

How government bent all rules to ensure Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal

The past and present of rivers

Author(s): Karuna Futane We are a generation that has turned flowing fresh water rivers to rivers of sewage and garbage. We have lost rivers. …

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …

Letter

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …