Weather turns severe in Uttarakhand

Situation likely to turn worse this weekend as more rains are expected

Uttarakhand's displaced

Super food Amaranth: healthy for whom?

People in cities shell out large sums of money for health foods such as Amaranth, little realising that those who grow these super foods don't …

Savour the lingra

Has the slump in monsoon really ended?

The all India rainfall deficit is down to 25 per cent as of July 23, showing an improvement in the rainfall scenario. But will the 'run rate' of …

Badrinath dodges a weather bullet

After showing a full horror film of what it can do in Char Dham Yatra last year, weather gives a fresh trailer at Badrinath by featuring a …

Forgotten healers

Traditional medicine system has time and again proved its worth. Then why the cold shoulder?

A delicious affair

During a trekking trip to the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, Chandra Prakash Kala discovers the succulent kafal fruit, which has found its way …

Natures own water purifiers

River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them

12 grain route to prosperity

Jyotika Sood finds out how farmers in the Himalaya manage food round the year

Pickle, tea and a spice

Those magnificent men and their machines

So-called scientific achievements of ancient Indians are no laughing matter when they are championed by the Prime Minister of India

Web unravels

Spiders can tell us about the health of the environment

Prickly, delicious

Floods and the Politics

Shalini Dhyani travels to Chinyalisaur to find out how heavy rains coupled with rise in water of Tehri dam has devastated the area.

Money matters

Sonal Matharu finds out how schemes for women and children are all about making money and neglect their health

True measure of growth

High standards for high-risk projects

We need to vigorously defend our remaining rivers from over-damming and strengthen the laws and standards that protect them

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

Unlikely man-eaters

Trespassers allowed

Unregulated tourism around the Corbett Tiger Reserve has restricted animal movement  

Under threat

A proposed dam is set to change the landscape in the Pindar ghati--host to the last free flowing tributary of the Alaknanda. Bharat Lal Seth …

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

Myth of power

Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be …

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region