Bundelkhand: drought, miseries and hope

What needs to be done to overcome environmental challenges of the region

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Remains of the day

Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh

Repeat and step it up

Central India in grip of worst-ever drought

Double trouble in Bundelkhand

Living the report

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Bundelkhand's dalit women join hands to drought-proof their villages

96 women-led pani panchayats take over water resource management

UP voters ask candidates for assembly election to take test

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Fight over regional resources drive demand for new states

Linguistic and cultural identity, which defined state boundaries in the initial years after Independence, take secondary place

Tribunal orders removal of Kishore Sagar lake encroachments in five days

District collector failed to act in spite of earlier directive of the National Green Tribunal on the lake which is one of the few sources of …

Bundelkhand's cycle of droughts: is it man-made?

Study by National Institute of Disaster Management shows authorities neglected to break the cycle of droughts when rains were plentiful

Children worst sufferers in drought-hit areas, says Satyarthi

According to the Nobel Laureate, 163 million children are living in severe drought-affected areas of the country

Penny unwise, pond foolish

The government should have revived traditional water bodies and ponds to prepare Bundelkhand for drought. Rather, it spent Rs 15,000 crore to …

Bundelkhand’s goats dying due to mysterious disease

The animals are the only hope of livelihood for the region’s drought-affected farmers

In-depth coverage: Drought, but why

Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management

Avartanasheel Kheti: Bundelkhand Diaries

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh's drought-prone Bundelkhand region demonstrates the benefits of mixed cropping

First drought, then floods: is this an extreme weather event?

After an excruciating drought, several states of India have reported excess rainfall this monsoon. Climate change may have a role to play in …

Gaushala of a different kind: saving cattle in Bundelkhand

Chowka village in Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, part of drought-stricken Bundelkhand houses a unique cow shelter (Gaushala). It takes care of …

Uttar Pradesh: drought of solutions to a flood of challenges

Poor health infrastructure, energy poverty and agrarian crisis are jostling each other to garner attention of new government

Drought-prone Banda district awaits the shower of poll promises

Poverty, hunger and deprivation plaguing the Bundelkhand region hardly become a poll issue

Drought causes Bundelkhand’s farmers to turn defaulters

In Uttar Pradesh’s portion of the Bundelkhand region, farmers’ lands are being auctioned due to their inability to pay loans