Thar desert faces threat
rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has asked the Union government to verify newspaper reports according to which the government is planning to bury nuclear waste in Thar desert. Down To
rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has asked the Union government to verify newspaper reports according to which the government is planning to bury nuclear waste in Thar desert. Down To
After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality
Neither Project Tiger nor the eco development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore
The people of Bichhri , a village in Udaipur district of Rajasthan, have taken on themselves the challenging task of restoring their contaminated land and water. Fed up of the government's inability
A special technology mission is being set up by the government for states that have unsatisfactory population control records. The states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Bihar and
A campaign by an organisation to clean up the polluted lakes of Udaipur has finally paid off. The Rajasthan High Court clamps down on erring government officials
Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby
They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery, as is happening in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Because India s rural economy is built around livestock, which ca
The Rajasthan Assembly recently passed the Right to Information Bill. But will it make state records more accessible to the public?
First hand account from a researcher who visited the drought hit regions
drought and an acute shortage of water have severely effected nearly 70,000 heads of cattle who face death due to starvation in the northern areas of Gujarat bordering Rajasthan. This year the
For British historians and administrators, Indian villages were self-sustaining units and they termed these units as village republics. Later, this terminology was done away with by historians and
parts of Rajasthan are in the grip of a severe drought and the situation may worsen further. Over 2.5 crore people and 3.5 crore animals have already been affected. According to a report
Scientists in Rajasthan try to revive ancient paleo channels to solve the state s water crisis<br>
A Rajasthan village has developed an ingenious rainwater harvesting system that has regenerated degraded pastures </Intro>
keoladeo national park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is fast losing its population of rare birds due to unchecked human habitation. The human population around the forest has registered a 24 per cent
Economic growth and development are destroying Rajasthan's unique forest based religious system
In Jaduguda and Rawatbhata, physical deformities are a way of life. The reality behind the shadows of India s nuclear establishment
fluorosis a crippling disease caused by excess fluoride in water, is fast becoming a scourge in Rajasthan where about 50 per cent of the villages face the problem. Excess fluoride content in the
more than a hundred cows have died in a span of four months in Rajasthan's Sar region, 23 km from Jodhpur. Though authorities have refused to give any reason for the deaths, it is said that the