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Smouldering row

Plan to evacuate Jharia residents: more to it than underground fires?

Displacing a livelihood

How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?

Radio programmes a hit in Pakistan occupied Kashmir

Uttarakhand tribal community bound to bonded labour

Narmada review: Break or breakthrough?

The Narmada Bachao Andolan has forced a reconsideration of the Sardar Sarovar Project. But with Gujarat opposed to any review and support for NBA …

One high-profile crusader takes on another

The activists' extremism subtly: Patkar compares the dam to a bomb while another activist says if the Berlin Wall could be brought down, why not …

It's a damp squib

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic-Christian thought dominate the report

A monumental failure

The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water-saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of …

Faulted for raising a banner

At the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul, Payal Parekh and her colleague Ann-Kathrin Schneider were deported. She spoke with Bharat Lal Seth

Keeper of the nation's water kitty

MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water …

Maharashtra government offers developed land; villagers unhappy

Taken at the flood

From saffron to green

Picking up the pieces

Industry's initiative

Directive draws flak

Home away from home

Centre approves evacuation in fire zones

Red tape and corruption delay compensation

DECEMBER 2-3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak - the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.…

Deep Concerns

Environmental groups wage legal war to contain mining operations in Karnataka's Kudremukh National Park

On shifting sands

Thousands in Bihar prepare to migrate, again, as the Kosi changes course

Bhopal remembered, Bhopal forgotten

Submerged by dams