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Deot Masih’s family has been extracting lotus root from the marshy land in his village near Gurdaspur for several decades. Delicate and crunchy, the edible roots are in high demand going as far as Srinagar in the north and Delhi in the south. Similar is the case with chestnut grown in this swamp.

Conflict between India and Pakistan over Indus Water Treaty continues

Ganga clean-up fails, thanks to multiple authorities and no monitoring

Although droughts are not new in India, we are seeing more of it of late.

The Krishnabai Utsav, a festival celebrating and revering the river Krishna as it flows through Wai, begins tomorrow in the town of

Constitute a committee to monitor Ken-Betwa river link, suggests NTCA

Glacial lakes pose flood risk to 441 hydel projects in Himalayan region

“Agriculture is a highly risky venture,” says Nagi Reddy, a farmer in Anantapur. Reddy is a small farmer affected by uncertainty in crop production stemming from unpredictable weather events and pest attacks, especially in his cotton crop. He works on his 2.5-acre farm and the rest of the time, he clocks in as a tenant farmer at an adjacent farm.

Dhangars, a semi-nomadic group in Maharashtra, are traditionally pastoralists.

After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power with Narendra Modi as the prime minister of the country on May 26, 2014, the new government initiated several key programmes with the protection of the environment in mind. One of the major programmes that gained momentum instantly was the Ganga river rejuvenation.