Truckers’ strike: 90% of food produce at stake

The country-wide truck operators’ strike continued for the fourth day and it was the farmers who lost the most

This flood-hit Kerala town braces for a week-long drinking water crisis

Flash flood has ruptured the main pipeline that supplies drinking water to the town

Poor post-harvest storage, transportation facilities to cost farmers dearly

If procurement of farm produce increases with the announcement of a new MSP, farmers’ post-harvest losses may increase manifold

India claims to be self-sufficient in food production but facts say otherwise

If the government decides to feed all its hungry people, India's tag of a net exporting country will be easliy lost

Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths

They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification

In the future, technology will lead to solutions as well as conflicts: Report

Published by the World Economic Forum, the report says that future conflicts and collaborations would be over weather manipulation tools, food …

New web-based platform to help with micro irrigation

Researchers have come up with a web-based application that helps design customised micro-irrigation systems for individual agricultural fields

Simply Put: Investments are subject to weather risk

Powerless firms

The crippling discom business needs fundamental restructuring for a future in renewable energy

Does rural India have enough water to sustain open-defecation free status?

While India is inching closer to being ODF, less than 20 per cent of rural households have piped water supply

This earthy flavour helps locals in Odisha fight adverse climate

Leafy greens like mutthi saag come in handy for poor people to meet their nutritional requirements

How we source water for cities: Lessons Tehri taught

A look at how complex the ecological and social consequences of our urban water management can be

Cyclone Fani: Five days on, Odisha still far from normal

The state government saved its people from Fani’s wrath, but the essentials to survive still remain scarce

Who will provide water security to Chennai?

Chennai is battling sever water crisis with daily water supply of 550 mn l/day against a required 1,200 mn l/d

Modi’s rural sojourn: Take piped water to 4,620 households everyday

The challenge is to sustain supply; most habitations covered with drinking water have slipped back to non-covered status due to drying up of sources

THROWBACK: How China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater

Even as Indian cities become increasingly water-scarce, they get flooded — as Mumbai is getting now — by a few days' intense rainfall.…

Catch water where it falls: Urban rainwater harvesting

Every raindrop matters at this time when large parts of the world are staring at water scarcity. Here are the answers to some FAQs on …

Expect budget to be rural-centric, focus on delivery to beneficiaries

PM Modi has already launched a major water conservation campaign, put the focus of his second tenure on revival of the agrarian economy

Union Budget 2019-20: Gush of funds for piped water

The government allocated Rs 9,150.36 crore for National Rural Drinking Water Programme — increase of 69% from last year

Union Budget 2019-20: Power access still in focus, what about solar rooftop?

Here’s taking stock of what the Union Budget 2019 had for renewable energy and access to energy

Not even 1 in 5 Indian rural households gets piped water, govt tells Parliament

Jal Shakti ministry reiterates all village households will be supplied water by 2024

Chennai water crisis: A wake-up call for Indian cities

Cities being the powerhouse of our economy, much more is required to make them sustainable and livable

IIT Kharagpur to steer Saraswati 2.0 for reuse of treated water

The institution will steer three pilot projects to treat wastewater, make it re-usable and also explore its usage in compost or value …

Water management practices dismal in states: Niti Aayog

Gujarat, Andhra, MP, Himachal keeps up tight water management

Govt wants to dump excess food grain in Africa

Food Corporation of India storages are spilling from excess food stocks and the new Kharif procurement season is only a month away