Serious flaws in the government’s population control policy

Women fall victim to failed sterilisation, while the government remains unaware of this missing link in population surge

Using tannery waste in fields turning soil toxic: study

Researchers studied soil and groundwater samples from farms irrigated by tannery effluents in and around Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh

Meerut's air quality more threatening than Delhi; old vehicles, industries add to woes

Inner Meerut's PM 2.5 concentration peaked at 1470μg/m3 as against the safe limit of 60μg/m3

More bite, less to chew

The most controversial aspect of the food security law is the restructuring of the public distribution system to cover an unprecedented 67 per …

SC directs Gujarat, Rajasthan to decentralise food procurement under ICDS

Tells states to keep big contractors out of nutrition programme for children, and pregnant and lactating women

Sham, sham

A recent survey finds the food for work progamme mired in corruption

UP voters ask candidates for assembly election to take test

All cracked up

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …

Orphaned by apathy

Hidden from the outside world, this is the plight of the Van Taungiyas. They were hired during the British rule as resident labourers to plant …

Contract killers

आखिर क्यों उज्ज्वला से जुड़े जरूरतमंद परिवारों ने मुफ्त रिफिल नहीं करवाए 9.88 करोड़ सिलेंडर

प्रति उज्ज्वला कनेक्शन पर तीन सिलेंडर के हिसाब से इस योजना के तहत करीब 24.05 करोड़ सिलेंडर रिफिल होने चाहिए थे, लेकिन इस अवधि ...

Agencies working towards making Haiderpur wetland in west UP a Ramsar site

Haidepur is significant as it supports rich biodiversity, offers livelihood opportunities for locals

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: पंचकूला में चल रहा अवैध खनन का कारोबार, कार्रवाई के आदेश

पर्यावरण से संबंधित मामलों में सुनवाई के दौरान क्या कुछ हुआ, यहां पढ़ें-

मौसम अपडेट: 11 सितंबर से इन राज्यों में हो सकती है भारी बारिश

मौसम विभाग का कहना है कि मध्य महाराष्ट्र के समुद्र तट से लेकर उत्तरी केरल तक समुद्र के स्तर पर एक कम दबाव का ...

प्रवासी श्रमिकों ने चार महीनों में जीवित किए 1,000 तालाब

उत्तर प्रदेश में सबसे अधिक श्रमदिवस सृजित करने वाला जिला सिद्धार्थनगर रहा। जिले में लॉकडाउन के दौरान कुल 1.51 लाख प्रवासी श्रमिक लौटे

Peninsular India may get locusts after 46 years. Blame the wind

The pests are being carried into the region by the southern branch of winds entering India north of the Western Ghats

Power plants in Singrauli-Sonebhadra region fail to manage ash: Analysis

Incidents of fly-ash breaches points to serious, unaddressed issue of unutilised fly-ash piling up in the region

भ्रूण लिंग जांचने वाली अवैध मशीनों की ऑनलाइन बिक्री जारी

कहीं भी ले जा सकने वाले नई अल्ट्रासाउंड तकनीकी  का बेजा इस्तेमाल जारी है। बेटियों को खत्म कर देने वाली मानसिकता के लिए यह ...

Ganga speaks volumes on flawed govt plan, yet makes no poll ripples

Uttar Pradesh's rivers find no mention in election discourse despite clean-up projects being the keystone of the Centre

Meat Matters

Why slaughterhouses have to be "illegal" to be sustainable and why farmers have to give up their cattle for survival