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Joshimath crisis: A story of criminal neglect

Ignoring protests and pleas of residents for 14 months, the government pushed on with mega projects.

Joshimath Collapses

Editor’s Note

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Joshimath is proof why eco-friendly development is the need of the hour

Vinod Kumar Gaur

Joshimath Collapses

Tapovan Vishnugad: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis

Himanshu Thakkar

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JOSHIMATH COLLAPSES

Ravi Chopra: ‘It is madness’

Anupama Katakam

Joshimath collapses

How unplanned urbanisation threatens the mountain towns of Uttarakhand

Prakash C. Tiwari

Joshimath collapses - Info Card

Alarming rise in landslides now a pan-India peril

Ramesh Chakrapani

Hills of Hassan district plagued by perennial human-animal conflict

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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Brown bear, red salmon

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How the West had its way

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The lion-tailed macaques of Valparai

Sudha Mahalingam Photographs by Sudha Mahalingam

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Researchers find that vultures in India are still in danger from the NSAID diclofenac

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Captive-bred white-rumped vultures released into the wild in Haryana

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Vanishing lakes of Hyderabad

KUNAL SHANKAR in Hyderabad

Rapid and unplanned urbanisation has shrunk and polluted Hyderabad’s waterbodies, main among them the Hussain Sagar Lake.

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In search of the endangered snow leopard, in the upper Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh

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The Nature Conservation Foundation has done commendable work over the past two decades to protect the snow leopard in the upper Spiti Valley in Himach

Spiti's snow leopards

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Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?

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The hungry river

Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.