A group of women overcame panchayat apathy and red tape to bring water to their parched Rupal village in Dholka Taluka in Gujarat. Some 45 km away from Ahmedabad, this village boasts of a women's

Poor Jhabua tribals are falling prey to the deadly silicosis

Kamli Ditiya is barely 40, but she looks 60. Two years ago, hers was a family of ten. Today, she is just one of three. The seven dead include her husband and their two sons. All died of one dreaded, malignant cause: silicosis.

Can a town be overweight? Shimla, capital of Himachal Pradesh, has managed to become just that. The load, as always, has been piling on over the years. In this case, storey by storey.
The erstwhile summer capital of the British empire, once hailed as the Queen of Hill Stations, has now become an outsized, uncontrolled monster in urgent need of therapy.

DRIVING into Guhagar (Maharashtra), in the shadows of India's largest power unit, on a Monday is like entering a ghost town. Everything is shut because it is the weekly power-cut day. On other days, there's load shedding for nearly six hours. Still, in many other ways, Guhagar is returning to life.

"Madhya Pradesh is fast moving away from its 'rich state inhabited by poor people' image, and bring about changes in the industry, infrastructure and social welfare to help improve the living standards of the people and pull itself out of the red".

India gave bananas to the world and today it is the world's largest banana republic

DEEP in the jungles of Bastar, a few kilometres off the dirt track that runs between Bijapur and Gangalur, in the adivasi village of Irullipallan, it is almost noon. Marvinda and his family have just arrived from a refugee camp at Shevnaar, about 10 km away, to inspect the old, burnt remains of their home before cooking and eating lunch.

In recent months, extreme weather events have repeatedly assaulted India. Global studies suggest that weather-related disasters have increased three-fold over the past 30 years. The United Nations

The wells of Laporia never run dry. In an arid village, in an arid corner of the country's most arid state, that's little short of a miracle. Seven consecutive years of poor rainfall in the Dudu

Is the Rs 13,500 crore Indirasagar dam another Narmada in the making? Despite protests, the project is on.

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