Bihar

Bihar floods: Fear of epidemic looms large

NGT has ordered states to maintain environmental flow of 15-20 percent in rivers

Floods are generally considered destructive but in some cases, overflowing rivers have the potential to create wetlands. These wetlands can serve as agreeable landscapes that turn resourceful due to the multiple functions it can host. The Kanwar Lake in Bihar is a striking example of this shared, altering landscapes. 

Chennai reels under acute crisis of drinking water

Madras HC dismisses plea to stop supply of Tamirabarani water to Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Irrigation system in India is often about big dams and hundreds of kilometres of canals that incur huge capital expenditure. Hence, policies at the central and the state level are mostly tilted in favour of big projects and often neglect micro-level solutions.

In the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.

An aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.

Six years on, Gujarat fails to form wetland panel

All 14 districts in Kerala have been declared drought-hit