Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …

Desperate for gas

Gas is the cleanest of fossil fuels and also more efficient and cheaper to use. Yet, in India, there has been no policy focus on this fuel, …

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Several await houses, compensation

DTE travelled to West Godavari district and East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh to evaluate the extent of displacement prompted by Polavaram …

Polavaram in tender turmoil

Court questions awarding of tender for mega dam to a disqualified consortium  

A congestion plan in the name of decongesting Delhi

Urban development ministry’s expert panel report on how to decongest Delhi pays only lip service to improving public transport and …

Polluted rivers pose risk to human health in three continents

Water pollution level has increased in Asia, Africa and Latin America, putting aquatic flora and fauna under extinction threat

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Rehabilitation colonies are unliveable

Toilets overflow in R&R colonies, residents resort to open defecation; some claim they used their compensation money to get constructions fixed

Bullet train or safe sanitation: Tough choice for Nanded

When Nanded already lacks the basic infrastructure of sanitation, what is more important for the city at present

More than 20,000 Ebola cases likely by November, forecasts WHO

The United Nations has already called for 20-fold increase in assistance to control the outbreak in West Africa

Maharashtra and Telangana sign MoU on Godavari projects

The MoU brings to an end long-drawn disagreements between the two states over the use of the river waters

Life in Red corridor: Future still bleak for those displaced from Chhattisgarh

Authorities in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana claim Salwa Judum displaced from Chhatisgarh are destroying forest land

Andhra Pradesh chief minister links Krishna, Godavari rivers

Around 80 TMCs of Godavari water were released into the Krishna for diversion to the drought-prone areas of the Rayalseema region

Uppada: On the frontline of the sea’s war on the Andhra coast

Uppada village in East Godavari District has lost over 127 acres of land in sea-erosion in the last four decades

Maharashtra, Telangana sign pact on Godavari irrigation projects amid protests

Building barrages upstream of the Godavari River might prove disastrous for the farmers in Andhra Pradesh

A blast off the top

The blowout at its rig in Andhra Pradesh has put the Oil and Natural Gas Commission in a technological fix, apart from raising the question of …

Kumbh leaves Godavari with 130 times more bacteria load

Scientists, who conducted a study at five locations across Godavari river, say open defecation by pilgrims and bad sewage management and waste …

How the Centre’s water management boards can spell doom for Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

The Centre has usurped all the powers of the states over irrigation projects and imposed all the liabilities on them, experts say

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 25, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Crop holiday: What made these Andhra paddy farmers consider it

Lack of payment of dues, no change in MSPs and creaking infrastructure has caused farmers in AP’s Godavari delta region to refrain from …

Show cause notices to 11 Nashik factories for polluting Godavari

The plastic and food processing factories don’t have proper effluent treatment system

Supreme Court clears way for Maharashtra’s Babli irrigation project

Rejects Andhra's plea to demolish barrage; sets up a panel to ensure equitable utilisation of Godavari waters

DTE Explains: The science of cloudbursts

Telangana Chief Minister said cloudbursts may be a 'foreign consipiracy' during his visit to flood-hid Bhadrachalam

PM Modi to visit cyclone-affected Visakhapatnam on Tuesday

Andhra chief minister asks the Centre to declare cyclone ‘national calamity’

Half-baked mega project

Power-starved Andhra Pradesh’s big lift irrigation schemes hinge on availability of electricity