1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

Injustice gets nastier

Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people

The obsession with insurgents is so deep that no one is paying attention to health and education in this ancient and beautiful land

To cull or not to cull: protests over animal killing orders

The Centre has declared nilgais (blue bulls), wild boars and Rhesus macaques vermins after receiving requests from Bihar, Uttarakhand and …

Jumbo alert

SMS-based alert system can drastically cut human-elephant conflicts

Operation ambush blackbuck

Leopards in my backyard

India is the only country where high densities of people and livestock share space with carnivores

Thin end of wedge

Why Vedanta's success will be bad news

Big impact

Mining will tax area's natural resources

Stay on land allotment for thermal power plant in Sompeta

Andhra Pradesh government had alloted 394 ha of wetlands terming it wasteland; farmers and fisherman were unhappy

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Protest for Kali river water

Eviction in Nigeria on hold

Clean-up plan for Union Carbide waste in Bhopal raises concern

UN asks Israel to ease curbs on waters off Gaza Strip

Tawa Matsya Sangh, fishing co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, loses licence

Congo rebel troops to stop further ape killings

Another oil invasion?

Heavy metal

Drought in Somalia makes civil war worse

Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

Taken by the horns

Gujarat buckles under farmers’ pressure, shrinks special investment region planned for industries

POSCO: take land but give life

Efficiency versus democracy