Signal, interrupted

By allowing high-rises around an advanced weather radar in Mumbai, IMD sets a bad example for the rest of the country

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods

Caught in the web

Of poverty, life in India has improved little over the past decade, reports the planning commission's National Human Development Report 2001

What’s the progress of Smart Cities Mission?

So far, 20 cities have identified 642 projects amounting to Rs 25,935.02 crore

Simply Put: Joshimath Rehabilitation

Simply Put: Noida Twin Towers’ fall and rise

India's roads to remain lethal even in 2030: Lancet

Roads in India ignore motorcyclists and cyclists, prioritise car owners, it says

Government announces names of first 20 smart cities

Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur top the list

Shared ride

Mobile apps that help car owners to offer rides to strangers are a big hit

Krack-a-Dawna: How a young couple pioneered natural farming in Mysuru

Today, after 37 years, Vivek and Julie are involved in helping mitigate rural problems through activism and policy

Book Excerpt: Tenochtitlan is testament to the Aztecs’ urban development skills

Stefan Rinke’s ‘Conquistadors and Aztecs’ dispels the myth that the Spanish conquered the Aztecs easily or simply  

Himalayan plunder: Certain towns at greater risk

While the entire Himalayan region is fragile, the zones that receive snow and rain are the most unstable

Poverty and inequality a threat to urban poor: UN report  

Multidimensionality of urban poverty and inequality should be at the centre of interventions to create an inclusive and equitable urban future …

Adapting to urbanisation: 66 bird species documented at Eco Park near Kolkata

The first GPS-tagged photographic documentation on avian diversity at Eco Park has been prepared to promote it a bird refuge for …

Invisible particles do matter for the air we breathe, finds studies

Ultrafine particles having almost negligible weight, surface area do have an effect on haze formation, visibility and air pollution, the studies found

Finding green sense in India’s new environmental regime

The new EIA draft notification leaves a lot of questions unanswered even as India is yet to receive a robust mechanism for performance monitoring …

How do India’s policies and guidelines look at ‘urban lakes’?

The country has come a long way in the fight to protect these bodies of water, but much more needs to be done

Track, the problem

As traffic increases on existing lines, accidents due to derailments reach alarming levels in the Indian Railways

Development: a war weapon

Graphic editor illustrates how harmful industries and vehicles are harming our lives 

Begging to whistling, rural India doing everything to end open defecation

Several villages in India are coming up with out-of-the-box ideas to discourage open defecation

Green roofs can help cities adapt to climate change

Dusty Gedge, president of European Federation of Green Roof Association, says growing a garden on roofs gives relief from heat island effect and …

Rebuilding cities

JNNURM fares well

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