Hot water; hotter tempers
On April 10, a hot sunny day, Chennai’s Chepauk stadium became a fortress. Yellow barricades, armed policemen and security vans surrounded the venue. The Indian Premier League was in town, and the Chennai
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Harvest of a dream
Nimpeth in South 24 Parganas, deep in the Sundarbans was a wasteland three decades ago. Mud houses dotted the area. Electricity was a rarity. All that has changed now. Every third house is a pucca
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Grassroots cleansing
Pilgrims to the holy city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh often go away without the ritual dip in the Shipra. The holy river has run dry over the years and the little water found there is from the city's
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Recycling children
It is that time of the year again when water shortage assumes megaproportions in the city. The Delhi government's favourite solution to the water crisis is rainwater harvesting. The Centre for
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Cooling the issue
Scientists' claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming had everyone thought and bothered, but new research showing that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages might
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Murky deals
The Rs 500 crore Save Dal project that the National Conference government devised together with the Centre in 1997 for the revival and conservation of the Dal lake has beneficiaries. But the once
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Deadly cocktail
Every gulp of mineral water you take could buy you death. The Pollution Monitoring Laboratory of the Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi has found that most mineral water brands in India
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Water, water everywhere
Situated 1,300m above sea level, Sohra, Meghalaya receives an average 10,000 mm of rainfall annually. So it is paradoxical that its 30,000 people suffer from water scarcity. Deforestation and soil
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Man called 'savage'
The botanists and geologists in Uttaranchal are yet to comprehend Jagat Singh Chaudhary's miraculous feat. This retired Border Security Force man has single handedly grown a forest in the rocky
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Tribal tigress
Like Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, Barla has been fighting tirelessly against displacement of 2.5 lakh people by the Koel Karo power project in Jharkhand. Demonstrations against the
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Another Bhagirath
This year's severe drought in Chattisgarh drove almost 10 lakh farmers of Kudari Dalli in Durg district had a good crop, thanks to Brijlal Sahu, 60, who changed the course of the river Dangarh to