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Maharashtra’s Climate Action Plan Comes up Short

Nidhi Jamwal 11/11/2019

Despite taking almost a decade to prepare a state...

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Cyclone Gaja Was a National Disaster – Don’t Let State Apathy Suggest Otherwise

Poonkuzhali and Kavin Malar 15/12/2018

If Gaja is treated – and dismissed – as...

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India Among Four Countries Where Water Taps May Run Dry, Says Report

According to the developers of the new satellite early...

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Is Climate Change Killing the Indian Farmer?

Nandini Majumdar 30/08/2017

We have an agrarian crisis today because we have...

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Small Farmers of Latur, of ‘Water Train’ Infamy, Doubt New Loan-Waiver Scheme Will Help

Nidhi Jamwal 13/07/2017

The Maharashtra government’s Rs 34,000-crore farm loan waiver may...

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Get Wired 11/6: Doubling Farmer Suicides, SAIL Chief Waved By, New HIV Sensors and More

Vaishali Rathore and Ayush Ranka 11/06/2015

Maharasthra’s farmer suicides double in two months In Maharashtra,...