Will the Bodoland council follow the beaten track?

A concept that did not click in the hills of the Northeast has now been prescribed for the plains of the region. On December 1, the Union …

War over water

The issue of sharing West Asia's water resources threatens to explode into another Arab-Israeli war, which will shatter the semblance of peace …

Acknowledging the role of the arbitrator

The Nuer tribals of Sudan settled their disputes in more organised and effective a manner than modern societies

End of dividend

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

Marine feuds are festering sores in Kerala

Kerala's coast has become a battleground between traditional and mechanised fishing communities, jeopardising the marine ecosystem.

Protest damned

The first tremors of ego clashes have rattled the anti-Tehri dam movement

Driven to the extreme

Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa

Insensitivity at its best

Amongst those who count the dead in Manipur

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

A 'shoot-at-sight order for a tigress

Deep Concerns

Environmental groups wage legal war to contain mining operations in Karnataka's Kudremukh National Park

Kolam tribals in Maharashtra struggling to get their land back

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

A shredded project

After the proposed Nylon 6,6 plant in Goa was discussed threadbare and opposed by many, the Greens succeeded in having the project shifted out

Not a dead society yet

Locals get firm

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

Tribals in a trap

Dying for a river

In Raigarh district of Madhya Pradesh, tribals are fighting to save their only source of water from an industrial house. A woman has already died …

A quiet Revolution

Six years ago, the Andhra Pradesh government decided to manage forests jointly with the people. This effort is breaking new ground in Naxalite-…

One Track Mind

The Union government's ineptness in dealing with technology finds a new victim: Delhi's metro rail project

Dam in check

In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam

Anti-Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people