Year: 2018

Travellers with Indian Army personnel on a road damaged by water flooding out of the Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand, June 2013. Credit: diariocriticove/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Fighting Floods Is Hard but There Are Two Ways to Make It More Democratic

K.A.S. Mani 11/08/2018

The Kerala floods in 2018 and the Uttarakhand floods...

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The Curious Case of the Sanitary Napkin GST Exemption

Rajul Awasthi 10/08/2018

The GST exemption of sanitary napkins may lead to...

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Why I Call Myself a Schizophrenist

Reshma Valliappan 10/08/2018

I got myself a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. This,...

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What Does It Take to Move 200 Elephants Over 1500 Kilometres?

Matt Hayward 10/08/2018

Around the world, the translocation of wild animals is...

Police stand gurad outside a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources in Thoothukudi

Sterlite: NGT Allows Vedanta to Access Administrative Unit at Tuticorin

The Tamil Nadu government had, on May 28, ordered...

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Fire at Mumbai’s BPCL Plant May Have Been Put Out, But a Bigger Disaster Is Brewing

Sukanya Shantha 10/08/2018

Thousands are have been relocated to multi-storied buildings in...

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Rain Fury Continues in Kerala, Two More Shutters of Idukki Reservoir Opened

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had described the flood situation...