Simply Put: Broken Covenant

Maharashtra’s Raigad hit by landslide, 16 dead

More than 100 people are feared to be trapped under debris

Maharashtra may become 8th state to opt out of Centre's flagship crop insurance scheme

The state is considering rolling out its own insurance programme for farmers

Simply Put: Renaming potholes

All you need to know about Fall Armyworm attack on India, Africa

Here’s a round-up of what’s being touted as the biggest ever pest attack

Railway gauge conversion threatens Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve

Petition filed against proposed broad gauge conversion through Melghat 

Hailstorm in Maharashtra kills at least three, destroys crops in Marathwada, Vidarbha

More than 27,000 hectares of crops have been destroyed in Jalna district alone

Sweet success for wonder fruit kokum

Local groups are helping farmers rewrite the story of the healthy fruit

A road set free

Latur gains from anti-encroachment drive on farm roads. State takes its cue

Building to resist quakes

Genes to the rescue

Novel varieties

The first hybrid rice variety developed in India has taken farmers by storm

Disaster port

Spinning with ease

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

In spate

Narmada dam row rages

Dead end

Toll road triggers protests

Losing ground

High rates of soil erosion trouble India

Disaster reigned in

Proper civic planning could have spared Mumbaikars

3 tiger cubs mowed by train in Vidarbha forest

The bodies were discovered on Thursday morning; the mother is suspected to be in the vicinity

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 17, 2023)

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

Gairan land encroachment in Maharashtra: Official surveys do not always show the real picture, say those affected

Land has not been demarcated correctly in many villages; or residential land has been so insufficient that houses have been built on pasture land

Ganesh Chaturthi: The modak’s history reflects its strong ties to the land; here is how

The sweet and some of the recipes used in making it are quite old; its ingredients include some of the Deccan’s famous crops like ambemohur rice

Tribal Education: How Bhils in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh set an example through ‘Jeevan Shala’

They established and have been running a number of schools in central India’s tribal areas for 30 years, despite government opposition

Hermann Bacher: The Swiss Jesuit who revolutionised watershed development in India

Hermann Bacher, who spent 60 of his 97 years in India, was deeply impacted by the Maharashtra drought of 1972; it led him to recalibrate his …