Disaster Bengaluru floods: When lakes overflowedVikhar Ahmed SayeedUnplanned urban development is behind the recent floods in Bengaluru.
Environment Rampant tourism renders Andaman and Nicobar Islands more fragile than ever Purnima S. Tripathi
URBAN LUNG SPACE Bengaluru activists up in arms against attempt to grab Hesaraghatta grasslandsRavi Sharma
For a natural balanceA National Consultation on Wildlife Conservation and People's Livelihood Rights stresses the need to work towards conservation projects that are equal
The real Green RevolutionSUJATHA PADMANABHAN ASHISH KOTHARITHE DECCAN Development Society (DDS) started its work in 1983 in the Zaheerabad region with the main aim of regenerating the livelihoods of the people
Impact of climate change in AsiaR. RAMACHANDRANThe Himalayas have nearly 1,500 glaciers and it is estimated that these cover an area of about 33,000 sq km. Snow, ice, and glaciers in the region are
A valley-type glacierR. RAMACHANDRANTHE Gangotri is the second largest Himalayan glacier after Siachen. The width of this 30.2-km-long glacier, whose head at its highest point is called
Unfit to ruleMERELY eight months in Central office, the coalition Government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party finds its political credibility, not to mention its
A President with a differenceON October 22, 1997, President K.R. Narayanan became the first constitutional Head of State to send back for reconsideration a Union Cabinet recommend
Let them eat the bombUNION Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha's 1998-99 Budget speech was certainly long on hype, starting with the dramatic claim of his presentation of the
To save a lakePRAVEEN SWAMI in SrinagarThe Jammu and Kashmir Government has launched an ambitious effort to save the Dal lake in Srinagar.
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
