Environment in elections: Andhra’s Rayalaseema battling drought conditions for 4 years, but ignored in poll manifestos

87 Mandals in four districts classified as ‘severely affected’ areas with less than 50% Kharif and 20% Rabi operations seen since 2020

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

India’s parched rivers: At least 13 without water, much lower than same period last year

With peak summer days ahead, condition particularly alarming for farmlands that make up 60% of basin

People’s agenda for coastal, river erosion: Local climate efforts need not be stalled for want of global action

While rehabilitating coastal communities, special attention must be given to traditional and customary rights of fishing communities over coastal …

Blazing India: Andhra’s economy suffers due to heatwave

Crops are withering in the countryside, leading to an exodus of people to the cities

Gongura pappu

Naidu’s ‘mind game’ behind building Andhra’s new capital

The government resorted to voluntary land pooling through speculation and intimidation

Heat wave

Adding spice to health

The pickle of gongura herb is a must with every meal

Sarpanch post in Andhra auctioned for Rs 4.15 lakh

Move aimed to reduce election expenditure; money to be used for development of village

Farm suicides: Women farmers demand a secure life

There is a wide variation in the R&R package given by different states, they say

A voice in the wilderness

Voluntary groups have found their guardian angel in an organisation with a heart

For those ensnared

Exported for survival

Andhra Pradesh's African remedy for farmers' suicides

Hitting diamond

India has deposits in Andhra Pradesh

Mumbai BRTS: held up in transit

Bus transport project changes hands; planners say it’s sabotage

Michaung intensifies into severe cyclonic storm; causing heavy rainfall in Chennai

Chennai received 230 millimetres (mm) of rainfall in the last 24 hours and is expected to see the worst flooding after December 2015

Hijacking big business' agenda

Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto's take on Chandrababu Naidu's 'our soil, our water' campaign

BEEDI TAX

Midnight hit

Tobacco row

Point missed

Amended law no respite for Andhra farmers

Riot turn

Gangavaram agitation puts AP government in a fix

Good beginning

Supreme Court refuses to lift stay on sand mining in Andhra Pradesh

Asks state government to approach MoEF for environmental clearance