International Day of Indigenous People: Floods in Godavari shed lights on tribals displaced by Polavaram

Project was hastily thrust on the people in 2004 without any clearances from any government authority

Nimmalapadu’s protracted struggle: Despite legal win, 3 Andhra tribal villages fight to save land from mining

Villagers near Andhra-Odisha border are fighting the state for calcite reserves two decades after securing Supreme Court victory 

Kakinada fishers grapple with pollution, climate change and unemployment

Marine plastic pollution is reducing fish catch even as regular jobs have reduced, even for the educated

Is Andhra Pradesh turning a blind eye to illegal shrimp rearing?

In the past few years, thousands of illegal shrimp rearing ponds have come up in East Godavari district, damaging fertilie soil and groundwater

Ambrosial nectar for malnourished children

A unique scheme implemented in a cluster of villages in southern Andhra Pradesh, and being replicated in different states, involves administering …

India's forgotten Africans

Down To Earth speaks to Beheroze Shroff, Lecturer at the Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine about the current-…

Yawning gaps

The lack of planning and lethargic management have reduced the once prestigious Indian Science Congress to a meaningless jamboree

Cyclone Vardah wreaks havoc in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh

Four people killed in Tamil Nadu after heavy rainfall with wind gusting at 120-130kmph lashed Chennai, Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur

New viral disease targets sheep in India

A contagious disease, similar to rinderpest and first observed in the Ivory Coast in 1940, has surfaced among sheep and goats in south India

Novel approach to primary education catches on

New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the …

The mystery of the aquadeaths

One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious …

All about Alamatti

The Alamatti dispute between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh joins the ranks of the nation's major wrangles over river waters

Educating the underprivileged

A review of our educational and training policy is desperately needed to educate tribals, the backward classes and the poor

Pongamia power enables Adilabad villagers to export carbon credits to Germany

When Gond tribals of Chalpadi village in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh agreed this April to export 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in …

Civic polls: TDP sweeps Seemandhra, Congress shines in Telangana

Jagan' Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress and TRS, the party that led the Telangana movement, fare badly

Andhra Pradesh introduces lottery system for allotting sand mining leases

State’s new sand policy replaces auction system for allotting leases and bans inter-state transportation of sand

Andhra Pradesh struck by over 60 cyclones in four decades

More than one cyclone in the same season is not unusual for the state

Andhra farmers turn masons, milkmen despite state getting ‘decent’ rain; here is why

They blame lack of remuneration, rising input costs and accumulating debt

DTE ground report: Polavaram — Displaced and nowhere to go

Standing crop in half a million hectares of Andhra’s rice bowl may have been affected by Michaung: Expert

This would cause losses of Rs 4,000 crore in just paddy  

Chennai Airport opens for traffic day after Cyclone Michaung wrought havoc on metropolis

Eight people killed in and around Chennai due to Michaung

Michaung heads for coastal Andhra Pradesh

Big impact around 12 noon on December 5

Blast in Anpara D power station

Hydrogen leakage from generator suspected to have caused blast

Exodus at Rollapadu

Why are birds abandoning the Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh?

45 farmers commit suicide each day in India

Underscores growing agrarian crisis