The Union Budget 2021-22 announced in February 2021, came amid health and economic challenges caused by Covid-19 and followed stimulus measures totalling a notional value of Rs. 27 trillion (Rs.…
As avian flu swept through India towards the end of 2020 and early 2021, states scrambled to step up vigil and measures to control the spread of the disease. The…
With a school bag on her shoulder and a big shopping bag in her hand, 17-year-old Alby stares at the backbreaking path ahead. The two-kilometre untarred road from the bus…
On April 28, 2018, Devidas Nayak of Molem, a mining-affected village in south Goa, wrote to the authorities managing the DMF funds, explaining that his agricultural land has lost its…
Living in Haryana, the hills of Himachal Pradesh were a distant dream for young Pradeep Sangwan. He attended a military school in Ajmer, Rajasthan where he lived a disciplined life…
As Similipal National Park and Tiger Reserve in Odisha burned over the past month, the debate over whether ownership of the park should be in the hands of the forest…
In the Malnad region of Karnataka that covers the western and the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, the king cobra is nothing short of a deity. Hooded cobras appear…
As the ambitious national target of “100 GW solar energy by 2022” draws closer, solar panels seems to be popping up almost everywhere. After spanning agricultural lands, obscuring waste lands,…
Bird migration is a phenomenon worth celebrating. And celebrate they do at the Government High School Cinchona, in the hilly town of Valparai in Tamil Nadu. Every year, grey wagtails…
The status and distribution over time of large carnivore populations are of enduring interest to biologists and conservation managers. Carnivore populations and distribution can decline due to a range of…