‘No need to decommission Mullaperiyar dam’

As the impasse over Mullaperiyar dam continues, T Hanumantha Rao, former chief engineer of Andhra Pradesh's irrigation department tells Bharat …

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides

Groundwater has failed Andhra Pradesh’s farmers. Between 1997 and 2006, about 4,500 farmers committed suicide, unable to repay loans they …

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

South Asia

Environmental clearance for Polavaram quashed

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Common concerns

As the commons come under increasing assault, academics, practitioners and policymakers come together to devise ways to protect shared resources

Why Manipur is flooded

The state's worst flood in recent history raises doubts over the role of dams

Maharashtra government's ATR on irrigation scam omits naming Ajit Pawar

Opposition threatens legal action unless deputy chief minister is punished

Environment ministry rejects 2 Vidarbha irrigation projects

Construction work began without environmental clearance

Missing pulse

Despite being a world leader in pulses production, India has been forced to import due to crop loss and seed deficit. The sharp rise in prices is …

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

The information is public

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

Seven Maharashtra villages protest dam

Compensation too meagre, say Melghat tribals

Polavaram dam: high court pulls up Andhra government for giving contract hurriedly

Government directed to submit all documents on the basis of which decision was taken

Blind to rain

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

Endgame for bustards

Great Indian Bustard has been pushed to extinction in its biggest sanctuary; breeding stops

News 360° - Briefs

Why Marathwada is becoming a graveyard for farmers

Season after season of failed crops is pushing farmers to the brink of desperation, while the inaction of the Maharashtra government is allowing …