Environment: Himalayas, Water And Many Other Things
While legal experts have questioned its national capital centric approach, environmental experts are not sure if the bureaucratic body that will be formed will be able to take stringent measures …
Air Pollution Ordinance 2020: Raises more questions than providing solutions Read More
Usually, a funeral pyre needs wood from at least two fully-grown trees. The majority of people from the Hindu community in India prefer to burn the bodies of their dear …
By Using Agro-Waste to Cremate Bodies, This Indian Man Has Saved 35,000 Trees Read More
This mobile water testing laboratory will be an effective mode of surveillance of drinking water quality in rural areas of the state of Haryana; quickly identifying the water quality problem …
Innovative solution for Water testing: State-of-the-art Mobile Water Testing Laboratory Van Read More
China and India together account for over 2.8 billion disaster-affected people between 2000-2019, approximately 70% of the global total, as per the latest UNDRR report. But are India’s Disaster Risk …
Disaster Management: Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) yet to be implemented for whole of India Read More
Under the aegis of NABARD and PMKSY, a Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) worth Rs 5,000 crore was set up in May 2018. Chhindwara, MP: ‘The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana …
‘More Crop Per Drop’: How PM Krishi Yojana is Making Agricultural Land More Productive Read More
Farmers Shanti and her husband Buddhman Singh, who has successfully experimented with growing capsicum using drip irrigation in open in village Bisapur Kalan in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. (Image …
The Secret Formula of Madhya Pradesh Farmers Who Now Own Credit Cards and Cars Read MoreBy Ritwick Dutta If rivers are considered as living beings, we must recognise that in India today, they are an endangered species. In his book, Animal Revolution (1975), Peter Singer …
All rivers require special status Read MoreAllowing the river to be a legal entity means according it the right to live “While exercising the parens patrie jurisdiction, the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna, all their tributaries, streams, …
Are Ganga and Yamuna going to be ‘living entities’ only for Uttarakhand? Read MoreThe pact must bring riparian nations China and Afghanistan on board amid changing climatic conditions. Ten days after the dastardly terrorist attack at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir, much water …
Indus Waters Treaty must change for environment, not to choke Pakistan’s lifeline Read MoreIn Peru, Kenya and India, NGOs are helping communities overcome water scarcity using wisdom from the past Across large swaths of the Thar desert in western India, traditional techniques …
The three wonders of the ancient world solving modern water problems Read More