Indus Water Treaty: Has it prevented Jammu & Kashmir from using their own resources?

The people of the region blame the treaty for their underdevelopment

Indo-Gangetic Plain, Meghalaya will need to use flood protection for 1,000 years: DTE analysis

DTE analysed the need for flood protection measures in India in response to a study on the subject published in Nature

New study sheds light on genetic affinities of Gujjars and Ladakhis

The study is the first comprehensive attempt to determine the genetic relatedness of the Gujjars and Ladakhis to populations within India and …

Kashmir gets warmer

Rising winter temperatures make rain and snowfall erratic in the valley, deplete streams

Monsoon progresses over Maharashtra, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir

More than three quarters of the country have experienced monsoon showers in the last four days

Can Omar Abdullah help restore TosaMaidan’s lost glory?

The former chief minister, who won with a narrow margin from Beerwah, was instrumental in getting the armed forces to vacate the large meadow in …

Mission Dal lake

Vice-chairperson of Lakes and Waterways Development Authority of Jammu & Kashmir, Irfan Yasin, speaks on the state authority's efforts to …

Path lab in a tablet

Kanav Kahol, an expert on biomedical informatics, quit his teaching job in the US and came back to India to create a technology that would …

Brace for more extreme weather events in Himalayas, warn experts

Maximum temperatures in mountain region may rise by 0.5°C to 2.5°C, says state action plan on climate change

Western disturbance to impact many parts of India

A wet weekend is in store for northern and central India

“It is a new model of development”

“Roles of village head are increasing”

“Basic service delivery has improved”

“Has space for women leadership”

“Panchayatiraj has opened the flood gate of democracy”

“Panchayatiraj ended people's isolation”

“The Supreme Court's Vedanta verdict is an irony”

Shahtoosh trade banned

Pact under pressure

Road to Amarnath

Incessant rainfall brings north India to its knees

The IMD said the intense rainfall over north India is because of an interaction between a western disturbance and monsoonal winds

North India Deluge 2023: Ladakh, a cold desert, received over 10,000% of its normal rain on July 8-9

Heavy rains are now a reality for Ladakh due to global warming; Ladakhis may now have to unlearn their former ways of living 

India removed from annual UN list of countries where children are impacted by armed conflict

India has taken measures to protect children, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, according to the UN  

Fungal scab attack can spell doom for Kashmir’s apple growers this year

Early, intense snowfall in November 2019 & a wet monsoon produced conditions for outbreak; lockdown abated it; farmers blame …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 31, 2020)

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