Choking Mahananda: How Siliguri’s waste, water crisis is turning on its people

Rapid urbanisation, inefficient waste management and encroachment have turned the Mahananda into a drain. And farmers are losing livelihoods

Super cyclone Phailin heads towards Odisha, Andhra

Deep depression over North Andaman Sea develops into severe cyclonic storm; expected to gather wind speed up to 185 km per hour

Lightning claims more lives in Odisha than any other calamity

14 deaths on September 16 takes this year's toll up to 191; Centre ignores state's plea to declare lightning a natural calamity

US court frees Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal gas disaster case

Company need not pay for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims, says district judge

Jobless growth comes to haunt beleaguered UPA government

Any job creation policy will have to refocus on ecology that has been giving employment to a large section of the population

Work on Suktel irrigation project begins at gun point

Balangir district authorities use police force to allow construction work as anti-dam stir continues