Good people

Authorities wake up

Royal rendezvous at Udaipur

Smelly pesticides

Lakeside woes

Vadodara's lakes imperilled by reckless government decisions

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Collectors turn entrepreneurs

A forest official helps tribals add value to forest produce and earn more

‘Treat severe malnutrition at home’

WHO proposes ready-to-use food. Health experts don’t agree

A village desperate for nutrition

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Other side of the fence

Conservation hits close home for forest officer

The drying up of the Jaisamand lake

If hydrocide -- the deliberate murder of a water body -- was a cognisable offence in India, the administrators of Udaipur city would be behind …

Miracles and methods

I once saw a miracle. It was near a ragged wall of broken rocks near Udaipur. One side of the wall had patches of yellowing grass, not taller …

Churning the stilled waters

The citizens of Udaipur are increasingly taking on the government to check degradation of the city's famed lakes

Brotherhood of greens

The desolation around Udaipur in Rajasthan is giving way to vegetation through the efforts of cooperative societies

Official doublespeak stumps Udaipur villagers

An Udaipur NGO has been summoned to court because a community hall it helped the residents of Vasu village set up allegedly encroaches on …

A bird, its photographs and a serendipitous discovery

Using photographs provided online, we found that information given in field guides regarding the Variable Wheatear was in need of an update

NGOs left holding the baby

The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary

The interminable wait for justice

Three years after a public interest litigation case was filed in the Supreme Court to stop a local factory polluting its drinking water, the …

'We need technology, but on our own terms'

Nanuram Rawat was the adhyaksha of the gram sabha in Seed, one of the first gramdan villages where environmental resources have been regenerated …

Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

Turtles in trouble

Faulty lake development design is pushing rare Bostami turtle of Tripura to extinction in its only known refuge—the Kalyan Sagar lake

Banking on mothers

A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy

Demolish hotel being built in Udaisagar lake: HC

Developer Vardhan Enterprise forcibly acquired island in the lake from farmers to build five star hotel

Udaipur hotels face demolition

Rajasthan High Court orders action against 41 hotels encroaching on lakes and for violating court order