How Delhi’s air pollution crisis may have origins in the Green Revolution
By Kapil Subramanian Punjab’s early groundwater tubewell revolution enabled (read, entrenched) double-cropping in a big way as it fought to grow rice amid a harsh […]
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India to spray water over Delhi amid pollution emergency
By Bethan Staton The government plans to spray the city with water in an attempt to clear the toxic cloud, which has forced schools to […]
Schools shut in India’s Delhi for the week as toxic smog thickens
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI: Delhi’s government on Wednesday ordered schools shut for the rest of the week as air pollution worsened and criticism mounted over […]
India: Government Constitutes National Coastal Zone Management Authority
By S.S. Rana & Co. Advocates Introduction The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has constituted the National Coastal Zone Management Authority vide notification no. […]
No quiet in India’s silence zones, finds study
By Vishwa Mohan NEW DELHI: A study which analysed data on noise levels in seven big cities of the country came to the conclusion that finding […]
Pollution a giant killer, and not just in the air. Watch out for toxins in water, soil too
By Sanchita Sharma Pollutants seeping into air, water and soil caused more than one in every seven deaths worldwide in 2015 Air, water, chemical and soil […]
‘Clean environment should not be responsibility of SC alone’
New Delhi: In the wake of rising pollution due to bursting of firecrackers, industry body Assocham today said clean environment should be a combined responsibility of the […]
India Diwali: Delhi acts against pollution menace
India’s capital is enacting a plan to combat hazardous smog, as air pollution in Delhi hits “very severe” levels New Delhi: The plan, which includes traffic […]
Giving New Hope to India’s ‘Third Gender’
In India, “hijras” are people who were born male but live as female or who are intersex. After years of discrimination, Indian society is starting […]
International Day of the Girl Child: Delhi ranks lowest in gender ratio at birth
Surprisingly, Jharkhand, which had more number of girls (1091/1000) than boys in 2005-06, saw a huge decline in terms of girl population (919/1000) in 2015-16. […]