‘Independent India worse for tribals’

Widely respected in the civil society, B D Sharma spent his life fighting for the rights of tribals for about four decades. Excerpts from a …

Intanki National Park- haven for encroachers’

Chunks of Intanki National Park in Nagaland are sold for Rs 2,500 a hectare as the forest department looks on. Sayantan Bera visits encroachers&…

Bear costume not scary

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Shifting Ganga creats islands disputed

In the post-monsoon months of September and October, the Ganga often rises to flood vast tracts of border land in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. As the …

Survival at stake

Flow row

Project spawns local water rights dispute in Nepal

Sri Lanka devises new way to conserve wildlife

No to industrialization drive

SEZ who? Not the farmers

Not ready to till

Fight for water ends in murders

Blood for land

Farmers demand concrete action

Police stall protests against Nirma cement factory

Locals get firm

No let up in human-animal conflict in Bhitarakanika National Park

Tribals in a trap

Liquid pressure

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Water war

A dispuet is brewing between TN and Kerala over a controversial dam

Uneasy truce

Stand-off ends between forest officials and villagers in Ranthambhore, but roots of the conflict remain

Out of site

Naxal attack Orissa foresters want VRS

Enquiry into Salwa Judum

Land goes to industry

South Asia

People refuse to give in to POSCO