Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The analysis presented in this paper shows that in water-scarce regions of India, run-off harvesting does not offer any potential for groundwater recharge or improving water supplies at the basin scale. The issues are many: (1) Water harvesting in the
Abantika Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: Exactly two decades ago, the apology of a river that flows through Delhi had inundated it, leaving 20 people dead. Old timers recall how the top of the gigantic Hanuman statue near Kashmere Gate was the only thing visible above the waters. Even as …
In Sikkim, bowing to local protests, the government has cancelled 11 hydro-electric projects. In Arunachal Pradesh, dam projects are being cleared at breakneck speed and resistance is growing. In Uttarakhand last month, 2 projects on the Ganga were put on hold and there is growing concern about the rest. In …
It will be a major problem, if the lion vanishes-goes a popular saying in Moli Haoussa-Gorma village in Niger. Beliefs such as this are significant in making the W National Park amongst the rare strongholds of the African lion. At a time when the lion population is declining alarmingly in …
The city government is on a tree planting drive ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Urban Indians are realizing the problem that is staring at us and therefore concerted efforts are being made to turm the Capital green. After decades of reckless industrialization the environment is back on the nation's …
NEW DELHI: A portal on environment and development designed and built by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), with support from the National Knowledge Commission, was launched here on Monday. A one-stop shop for all information and resources, the India Environmental Portal will enable the flow of easy-to-use information …
Finding parking space in the city is becoming an impossible task and with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) yet to furnish a list of parking sites along the 2,183 notified commercial and mixed land use stretches
Bangalore, DHNS: The 356-page State of Indias Environment Report - Rich Lands, Poor People - Is Sustainable Mining Possible? was released in Bangalore on Monday... Mining in India (including in the iron ore-rich Bellary district) contrary to the government's claims, has done little for the development of mineral-bearing regions. It …
As a part of a centrally-sponsored scheme non-recommended pesticides were being distributed to farmers in Rajasthan. Farmers were being forced to buy unnecessary pesticides as a part of the subsidy package under the National Horticulture Mission (NHM). These chemicals have not been approved for use in the crops that were …
DOWN TO EARTH Protests against resources being acquired for industry form the environment movement of the poor. In Sikkim, bowing to local protests, the government has cancelled 11 hydro-electric projects. In Arunachal Pradesh, dam projects are being cleared at breakneck speed and resistance is growing. In Uttarakhand last month, two …
The first monitoring was undertaken on August 22, 2008. When the farmers group visited the CETP for sampling, they observed bypass of untreated effluents and the district administration and the pollution control board was informed of the same. On the complaints of the community, the regional officer, Rajasthan State Pollution …
State govts are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. But more desperately, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives -Ashutosh Mishra South Korean steel giant POSCO's proposed steel plant hangs in …
Increased industrial use of diesel and preference for diesel vehicles has caused the demand for this fuel to accelerate. Subsidies are largely to blame. Three experts debate the fallouts. I S S U E S What are the socioeconomic consequences of the increasing consumption of diesel? Is relative price of …
High procurement: Good strategy or bad arithmetic, examines KP Prabhakaran Nair, agricultural scientist based in Kerala About two months ago New Delhi was involved in a fire-fighting exercise on the food front, particularly on the wheat front. It put embargo on rail transport for private trade, scrapped the futures trade, …
Despite good laws and even better intentions, India causes as much pollution as any rapidly industrialising poor country A HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He …
Kolkata's public transport has to move to CNG Metropolises in this country have made, or are in the process of making, a switch to CNG as far as their public transport system is concerned. The first, and most comprehensive, switch was made by Delhi, which converted all public transport vehicles …
Megha Suri | TNN The reopening of schools after the summer break has thrown the city into a severe CNG crisis. The waiting time at filling stations, which was just 5-10 minutes at the beginning of the year, has increased to an average of three to four hours, leading to …
Waterless wheat makes central India 's farmers smile - Savvy Soumya Mishra Time was when Malwa, a region spanning central India , grew wheat that required no irrigation. What it required instead was careful nurturing of the soil to retain its moisture. That was then. Soil preparation began months in …
For small-town India to become big, it will have to boast that it doesn't want to be another Shanghai. Small-town India is about to explode. But the question is if these cities will be able to manage this growth or will they implode from within
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi July 09, 2008, 0:18 IST The Uttarakhand government recently put off two major hydel projects, the 480 Mw Pala Maneri project and the 400 Mw Bhaironghati project, buckling under the man's arguments. Meet GD Agrawal, a Gandhian, who the locals initially thought was Sunder Lal …
