'Adani port project will be an environmental disaster'

'People should realise that what we are fighting for today is actually for tomorrow, for future generations.' IMAGE: Fishermen protest against the Adani group's port development project at......

Why India should be worried even though tiger numbers are up

Image: An Indian Royal Bengal tiger at the South Khairbari nature park near Siliguri. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters   'We are rushing to 'develop' without carefully valuing natural......

'The Kasturirangan Report is a disaster for the Western Ghats'

'If the Kasturirangan Committee report is implemented, the mining and quarrying lobbies will flourish... It will be disastrous for the environment.' 'There will be water shortage, there will be......

India Shining! Precious forest land wiped away for 23,716 industrial projects

The government may claim planted trees compensate for forests lost, but that does not mean complex flora and fauna destroyed have been restored, points out Himadri Ghosh. Over the last 30 years,......

GMOs - from war to dialog?

Indian scientists who wrote to the PM last week are not entirely rejecting GMOs but instead asking for caution and further testing to establish their safety, writes Rajni Bakshi. When dignitaries......

Bt brinjal a conspiracy: MP govt

Terming the move to introduce Bt brinjal as a 'conspiracy' by multi-national corporations, Madhya Pradesh government said on Thursday it would not allow GM crops and would pass a legislation, if......

10 state governments say no to Bt brinjal

Ten state governments have decided not to wait for the end of the controversy over whether genetically modified brinjal, popularly termed Bt brinjal, should be approved or not. They have decided......