Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic

The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 23, 2020)

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

NGT stops mining in ecologically sensitive Madhav National Park in Madhya Pradesh

Tribunal-appointed panel found advertisements published for leasing out mining sites; recommends geological study to find reasons behind …

NSA for alleged cow slaughter and the myriad ironies played on the Constitution

The State that is super-sensitive about bovines seems to hardly care about other Directive Principles of State Policy

New MP, Chhattisgarh CMs' loan waivers to not benefit 3.5 million farmers

The schemes Kamal Nath and Bhupesh Baghel announced soon after taking oath will not help those who take loans from money lenders

National Security Act targets Narmada Bachao movement: Medha Patkar

The Madhya Pradesh government has invoked the National Security Act from July 1, at the same time when the Goods and Services Tax is all set to …

Panna tribals denied forest entry in the name of animal conservation

Women are now overburdened with the responsibility of fetching food for the family. Earlier, tribals would collect food and firewood from …

Romancing the trees

After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests

Catching water where it falls

A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum

Water wonder

Buhanpur Municipal Corporation in Madhya Pradesh revives a unique underground water system of the 17th century, Khooni bhandara, to solve the city'…

PM, CM in title clash

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh are playing the blame game over the settlement of tribal …

A success story

The 2003 monsoon could herald a great change in the socio-economic landscape of village Birora Kheth in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. …

Madhya Pradesh sets JFM precedent

Two recent developments augur well for the forest dwellers of Madhya Pradesh. Firstly, under the Joint Forest Management plan, forest protection …

Solar power is the only viable alternative

K R DATYE has been associated for years with grassroots organisations such as the Pani Panchayat and the Mukti Sangharsh, which has spearheaded …

Our duly elected unrepresentatives

Who do the candidates in the polls represent and how representative are their victories?

75% decline in Gujarat’s vulture population: Babul Supriyo

In neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, the vulture population has increased by 12 per cent

A year of the cheetah in India: The exercise offers simple yet critical lessons

Value science, consult widely, listen carefully and experience transparency

Dalits and Adivasis in Madhya Pradesh allege digital land records fudged; no longer landowners

Records show influential locals now owners; no action from administration yet

Vital drip

A farmer in Madhya Pradesh uses discarded saline bottles to irrigate fields

Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS

State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain  

Catching raindrops

Self-help

Democracy "of the people, by the people and for the people". Madhya Pradesh takes the lead

In Court

Dubious report

Book: The Gir lion

Book>> The Gir Lion By H S Singh Pugmark Books, Ahmedabad 2007