A concession called SEZ, all for foreign exchange

Special Economic Zones barter away democracy

New mineral policy pushes privatization at people's cost

Freeze on special economic zones lifted

Cost of irrigation 15,000 people

Promised land turns arid

Rajasthan fails to allot land to those displaced by Pong dam

Disasters, conflicts triggered 5 mln displacements in India in 2019

India's tally highest among 33 mln globally

Jharkhand braves bullets to create polling record

Heavy turnout of voters in Naxalite-affected areas forces political parties to rethink campaign strategy which so far had ignored development …

Ministers fail to reach consensus on R&R policy

Book review: Environmental issues in India

Book>> Environmental Issues in India: a Reader edited by Mahesh Rangarajan Pearson-Longman 2007

Orissa wants stay on Polavaram

State says environment ministry’s approval overreaches apex court

Maharashtra government offers developed land; villagers unhappy

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Hunger strikes forest’s exiles

Once called lords of the jungle, Baiga groups in Madhya Pradesh are starving on the margins of Kanha National Park. Shriya Mohan chronicles their …

Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …

Revisiting Kalinganagar

Devastated still

Months after disaster struck Uttarakhand, government has done little to improve people’s lives

Himalayan destruction

Study quantifies the impact of hydel projects on the ecology of the mountain range

Churning issue

Does the concept of interlinking India's rivers hold water? The debate rages on...

Goa plans largescale park, land disputes arise

Goa govt bending laws

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Nano flip-flop

Maharashtra to notify the much-delayed Sahyadri tiger reserve

Twice Unlucky

In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

Landless poor march to Delhi. Then what?