Why India’s celebrating World Water Day and Forest Day is a farce

Instead of salvaging these highly essential resources, our country is busy butchering them

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Wannabe Backwards: Reservations and the Agrarian Crisis

India's influential farming communities demand to be branded poor and underprivileged. Down To Earth unearths the real story behind this growing …

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Simply put: Dalit women marginalised from mainstream politics, economy

‘In a world in which wildlife is so threatened, the Indus dolphin is a rare good news story’

Gill Braulik, who has been studying Indus River dolphins in Pakistan for over 15 years, speaks to Down To Earth about the future of the animal in …

Health in news on May 11

Panic over bad blood

In hot water

The Green Revolution and a dark Punjab

Punjab has paid a price for food security. The use of pesticides and fertilisers has resulted in a number of health issues for the state’s …

Punjab bats for direct seeding of rice. But will it help farmers?

Lack of migrant labourers in the wake of COVID-19-fuelled reverse migration has prompted state government to abandon traditional transplantation …

Punjab rushes to grant sand mining approvals

Clears environment management plans for 63 sites; mining officials cite shortage of construction material for show of haste

Kin of COVID-19 dead in Punjab refuse to attend last rites

State government trying hard to remove stigma attached to disease

‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’ a welcome move, but will it work?

Given the state government’s past record, one can’t but help feel skeptical

Why potato means bad news in Punjab now

A cycle of misery kicked off by demonetisation still haunts farmers as well as cold storage owners

Why certain parts of India shone during the recently-concluded Asian Games

Reasons as varied as a strong farming culture. patriarchal tradition and geography influence why sportspersons from Haryana, Punjab and India's …

Making sport of Conservation

To site or not to site

The fraud of the century

Flowed east, flowing west

Changing course of Himalayan rivers passing through Punjab

When all flows out

The recent dispute over the Indus' waters stems from its faulty allocation

Punjab extends time for brick kiln conversion to September

Those operating kilns with older technology still have to pay a fine depending upon the capacity of kiln under the polluter pay principle

No end to discrimination against Punjab’s Dalit women labourers, says study

A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment 

Indo-Pak study reveals extensive arsenic problem in Punjab groundwater

The study found that 23 per cent of the 30,567 wells they covered had arsenic content higher than the prescribed limit

Will centralised waste disposal work for Punjab?

Safe waste disposal is a big challenge for the national sanitation overdrive. Punjab has been experimenting with centralised systems to tackle …