High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water......
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to generate employment besides chasing away automobile industry and asked people to vote for the......
Temperatures have soared to 50.3 degrees Celsius, but no deaths from the heat have been reported from Churu.Ritwik Sharma finds out how Churu's citizens keep cool in the unbearable heat. IMAGE: A......
Factors such as industrial backwardness, crime, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor educational infrastructure will take a backseat to identity, reports Aditi Phadnis. Election war......
'She has kept them poor so that they spend all their time keeping body and soul together and when the time comes to vote, they blindly vote for her. Had they prospered, they would have had the time......
At the bottom of the water index for 2016-17 are Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh (UP), and Haryana, which are major producers of paddy, wheat, along with a host of horticulture crops. A......
Villagers have been protesting against the Sterlite factory since February 12, with an effigy of Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal as the backdrop.More than 75 days hence, the dharna continues, the......
The most worrisome aspect is that most water woes are the result of mismanagement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s well-meaning plea in his monthly Mann Ki Baat programme to preserve every......
Growth and development in India will be governed by the way water is used and managed. On World Water Day, Romit Sen and Kamal Vatta analyse how a proper framework can ensure the safety and......
Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu likely to be India’s most water-scarce states this summer Water levels at 91 major reservoirs nationwide are the lowest in a decade -......