Development And Environment
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BR Ambedkar’s vision could hold solutions to India’s agrarian distress and unemployment
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Sandeshkhali: How adapting to ecological distress led to landgrabs, abuse and economic oppression
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Joshimath: Local economy takes a beating as tourists dwindle, residents move out
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Along the mighty Indus, stories of a changing river and evolving relationships
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‘Huge setback’: Nepal approves policy allowing hydropower projects inside protected areas
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How the government covered up the severity of Teesta floods by blaming them on a ‘cloudburst’
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‘Ticking time bombs’: Sikkim floods a reminder of why locals opposed dams in the Himalayas for years
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In Darjeeling district, residents oppose hydel projects over small rivers and streams
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Supreme Court modifies its order on eco-sensitive zones around national parks, sanctuaries
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Maharashtra: After arrest of 111 protestors, Thackeray faction to launch stir against Barsu refinery
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SC imposes Rs 10 lakh fine on Mumbai Metro for seeking to cut more trees at Aarey Colony
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Bombay HC halts felling of 177 trees at Aarey forest
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Indore is showing how India’s resource-scarce municipal bodies can improve their financial health
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More trees have to be cut down at Aarey Colony due to litigations, Mumbai Metro tells High Court
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Bangladesh’s only coal mine is swallowing farmlands and polluting rivers
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SC allows Mumbai Metro to seek civic authority’s approval to cut 84 trees at Aarey Colony
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Protest slogans with bhajans: In Ratnagiri, a proposed refinery has sparked resounding opposition
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In its efforts to ensure justice for Adivasis, Narmada Bachao Andolan strengthened Indian democracy
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The real price of development: Shifting the debate is the Narmada movement’s greatest contribution
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Urban Naxals opposed Sardar Sarovar Dam by peddling misinformation, alleges Narendra Modi
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Is economic ‘degrowth’ the only path to an environmentally sustainable future?
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A railway line being built in the Himalayas may spell disaster for the fragile region
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Why a Niti Aayog study on the economic costs of ‘judicial activism’ must be viewed with scepticism
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Development and mangrove conservation can go hand in hand. A new Gujarat study offers proof
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Maharashtra government lifts stay on metro shed construction in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony
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Hydropower projects are leading to the loss of endangered chilgoza trees in Himachal Pradesh
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Indian government is yet again considering a dam that has been rejected for 50 years
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Kosi-Mechi interlinking: Who is really going to benefit from Bihar’s ambitious water project?
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Kerala scheme shows how to create work opportunities while caring for the environment
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In Himachal Pradesh, climate change and unplanned development are causing disasters
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In Rajasthan, villagers are standing up to green energy companies to protect sacred groves and birds
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India’s environment ministry created new offices – but failed to hire staff for them
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Civil society scores a win as an SC-appointed panel red-flags projects in Goa’s forests
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Indian government’s development plans for the Andamans may endanger the world’s largest sea turtles
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Saved by a whisker: Plans to mine a Telangana tiger reserve for uranium have been shelved
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Indian government wants to strip even the Andaman Islands of their environmental protection
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A railway project is putting animals at risk in a tiger reserve in Jharkhand
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Uttarakhand floods highlight the need to factor in the environment while planning development
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The construction of India’s third-longest tunnel in Kerala may destabilise the Western Ghats
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Aarey: As Maharashtra moves metro car shed from green zone, BJP warns of cost escalation
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Two decades after Kolar Gold Fields lost their glitter, residents continue to live in despair
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In Kerala, development projects cleared amid lockdown threaten the state’s ecological balance
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In Central and Western India, rails, roads and power lines are cutting through forest tracts
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Indian ministries want to limit public consultations that are necessary before approving projects
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Do India’s rivers have a Constitutional right to flow?
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Forest officer denied work after he flagged environmental violations in Andaman and Nicobar
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India’s environment ministry has hit the brakes on Mumbai’s Rs 364-crore marina project
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The road-building spree in Asian countries is a threat to the dwindling tiger population
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India’s push for ease of doing business will weaken environmental checks on development projects
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After Supreme Court order, India’s forest ministry has made restoration of mined-out areas mandatory
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Why Modi government’s LPG scheme has failed to take off in Odisha’s forest-dependent villages
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The environmental cost of India’s efforts to promote ‘ease of doing business’
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In Odisha, a coal mining project has undone years of tree-conservation efforts in one fell swoop
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Under President’s rule, J&K has given up 243 hectares of forest land for army and paramilitary use
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Net loss: We need to consider the environmental cost of the digital economy
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Years before tree-cutting protests, Aarey Milk Colony was an Indian welfare state dream project
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Goa: Piyush Goyal calls for ‘mass movement’ against those who oppose development
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Disaster or development? Why locals are up in arms against the Sikkim rail project
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13 railway projects cutting through India’s wildlife reserves don’t need forest approvals anymore
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Bye, bye birdie: As plans for Pune metro speed up, a bird sanctuary risks becoming collateral damage
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Thermal and chemical pollution haven’t damaged coastal ecology near Kalpakkam – so far
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Study shows the impact of unplanned development on river basins and catchment areas
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India’s swimming camels are endangered by destruction of mangroves in Kutch
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Community-led projects in Meghalaya are helping the rare mahseer thrive
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What China’s vision of a ‘community of shared future’ means for the countries of the Mekong river
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In the Western Ghats, wind farming is making lizards change colour, says new study
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Green revolution or a public nuisance? The growing dockless bike trend has divided opinion
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The poor bear the real cost of Pakistan’s mega projects because of the Raj-era Land Acquisition Act
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Sand mining in coastal Kerala is swallowing villages and displacing thousands
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Research on India’s lion-tailed macaques shows why humans need to rethink habitat fragmentation
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Walmart tried to balance environmentally sustainable practices with affordability. Did it succeed?
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Tamil Nadu’s choked urban wetlands will soon get protected status
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Tamil Nadu clamps down on activists as opposition to Chennai-Salem greenfield expressway builds up
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As India eyes coal reserves in Indonesia, legal, environmental and social concerns arise
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In Morocco, a project is tackling drought by making water out of fog
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As China eyes global clout with Belt and Road Initiative, what price will the environment pay?
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Pakistan’s parched Gwadar port wants to be the ‘next Dubai’ – but has to fix its water problem first
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A new study on East Kolkata Wetlands’ carbon-absorption abilities is a wake-up call for conservation
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Tourism scores over ecology, livelihoods as India’s coastal law is amended yet again
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Kerala’s farmers have found a unique way to keep marauding elephants away – scaring them with bees
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Video: How real estate greed threatens to wipe out the ancient forests of the northern Aravallis
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China’s growing global footprint threatens to trample the natural world
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Thar desert is an oasis of inter-religious harmony in Pakistan. It must not be destroyed
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‘I’m not going to leave my home’: Threat of displacement leaves Kedarnath residents worried
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India’s coastal law is being altered in public interest – by bypassing the public
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Sponges, urban forests, air corridors: How nature can help countries keep cool as the world gets hot
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Angry elephants and disappearing fish: Small hydel plants are no green alternative to big dams
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As Centre tries to shift Goa’s NGT cases from Pune to Delhi, citizens and High Court put up a fight
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Road projects are threatening the biodiversity of Sumatra’s last great rainforests
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360° Video: Almost 5 billion litres of sewage is dumped into the river Ganga everyday
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Why scientists are making fake poo in a laboratory to improve sanitation in Bangladesh
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Is hectic highway building in Arunachal Pradesh leading to more landslides?
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How villagers in Nepal are making sure their concerns over a mega dam project are heard
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Gujarat’s solar irrigation cooperative has a solution for India’s groundwater crisis
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Will China’s One Bridge One Road project do more harm than good to the environment?
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Himalayan blunder: Pakistan’s Indus Cascade plan will reduce food and water security
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Why climate change activists aren’t fans of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
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China is building more dams than it needs
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In Myanmar, government efforts to push large dam projects have met with a flood of resistance
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A solar power project is in the works to put contaminated land around Chernobyl site to good use