In Short

An open letter to forest denizens to avoid being roadkill

The hapless leopard, imprudent tiger, unreasonable tortoise, witless pangolin, incautious deer and the irrational elephant should just stop …

Roads are meant for walking

Hot wheels

Hope in jaywalkers

The dominant urban vision is deeply exclusionary

Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

The state needs stringent town planning and environment assessment to prevent disasters

Defence projects, border roads will not require green nod from Centre: Javadekar

Activists say this will aggravate environmental problems, especially since borders in Himalayan states are ecologically fragile

Defence projects, roads on border will not require green nod from Centre: Javadekar

Activists say this will aggravate environmental problems, especially since borders in Himalayan states are ecologically fragile

Don’t allow new roads in sanctuaries, says MoEF expert panel

National Board of Wildlife accepts recommendations of panel on guidelines for roads in protected areas

Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

Pedestrian questions

Mumbai’s second sea link unlikely

Coastal road could be built to link Worli to Haji Ali

Remembering 2013 Uttarakhand Floods

In June 2013, flashfloods in Uttarakhand wiped out settlements and decimated lives. Here’s a throwback to our investigation into the …

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Time for an overhaul

Having served the country for more than a century and a half, the Indian Railways has taken apathy in its stride. Politicians’ whims, and …

Road map to save environment

A global map highlights regions where road construction will have high environmental costs

Between Maoists and mines

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera

Maoist insurgency

Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor

Letters

A million opportunities lost

The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …

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, …