Andhra farmers taste success with Zero Budget Natural Farming

Ensuring food security, producing more with less resources and building the resilience of smallholder farmers are important towards creating a …

Suicide by pesticide

After the failure of the cotton crop, a large numbers of farmers in Andhra Pradesh are committing suicide by consuming the very pesticide that is …

Website review: http://www.saukaryam.org

Vishakhapatnam residents can register and verify births and deaths online and get the certificates delivered to their residences. Payment of …

Beads that can heat water

With fossil reserves fast depleting, new technologies promising more efficient use of renewable energy sources, especially the sun, are flooding …

Dark zones are human-made

Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under …

People boycott magisterial inquiry into Sompeta, Kakarapalli firing

Say have no faith in the inquiry

Centre flouts norms to allow Polavaram construction to resume

Mandatory public hearings are still pending in Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Farmers shun cotton

Delayed monsoons, high input cost make farmers shift to guar, groundnut and pulses

Board trouble

A new report severely castigates the functioning of India's pollution control boards

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Export bite forces a plan to promote residue-free chilli

Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

Third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad

Off course

Anti-greening measures

Easy method to detect bacterial infection in citrus varieties

Current season’s first cyclone might be brewing over Bay of Bengal: Experts

Predicting a probable forthcoming cyclone in the Bay of Bengal has been reflective of mismatch between forecasts from various datasets in a …

Cyclone Gulab: Excess rainfall, landslides in Odisha; national highways blocked

Possibility of floods have been ruled out; more rainfall predicted as cylone moves towards Chhatisgarh

Vizag gas leak: Pollution control officials sceptical over new law

CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy has stressed on need to frame a new Act to control pollution in the state, especially in hazardous industries

Killer heat wave engulfs Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Local media reports say that, in all, more than 300 people have died due to the weather in both states

Hudhud intensifies into a category 1 cyclone

Phailin had intensified rapidly from a category 1 cyclone on this day last year. Will Hudhud follow in its footsteps?

The Pellipadugu Declaration on Food Sovereignty

Adivasi, dalit, pastoralist and peasant communities declare food security can only be met through Food Sovereignty

When wind and water run riot

The killer cyclone that hit Andhra Pradesh in 1977 will long be remembered as India's worst natural calamity of this century. But that we still …

Changing colours

After blindly destroying much of their forest cover, people in Anantapur district attempt to reclaim their barren lands

Cotton tangle

Indian Bt cotton varieties show 75 per cent expression of the Bt gene, while elsewhere it is 100 per cent

Path lab in a tablet

Kanav Kahol, an expert on biomedical informatics, quit his teaching job in the US and came back to India to create a technology that would …