With passions reaching fever pitch between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the decommissioning of the century-old Mullaperiyar dam, experts are asking whether dams do collapse in India?
Three dams have collapsed in Andhra Pradesh in the last five years. These include the Subbaraya Sagar in East Godavari in 2010, the Palamvagu Dam in Khammam in August 2008 and the Gundlavagu Dam in Warangal district in 2006.
The CAG’s report on “Water Pollution in India” warns against the “drastic change in water quality” of Jammu and Kashmir’s Dal Lake, which is being destroyed by untreated sewage and fertilisers bein
The global climate talks here were salvaged from the brink of collapse with an overall agreement on Sunday on a roadmap towards an accord that for the first time will bring all major greenhouse-gas
With time running out, minister of environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan admits the Durban climate talks have reached a deadlock and does see too much forward movement taking place in the next
In order to sharpen their negotiating clout during the high-level segment of COP17, leaders of the BASIC countries came together to declare that the Durban accord must carry a clear and ratifiable
The United Nations’s Human Development Report 2011 — Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All — has come down sharply on the widening income gap between rich and poor with huge amounts of
One of the most successful efforts to rehabilitate villagers from a tiger reserve is now being conducted at Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha park: 28 villages in the core reserve area have already been reloc
Although women are admittedly bearing the brunt of climate change, India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has remained gender-blind and does not focus on gender issues.
