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
Cost of marble
Mining in Rajasthan's Rishab Dev tehsil, the only place in the country that produces green marble, registered 6,681 times growth in 14 years. But …
Transition failure
With an eye on the 2014 general election, the UPA government is expanding its ambitious Direct Benefit Transfer programme that promises welfare …