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Rescue efforts during the Kerala floods. Credit: PTI

Kerala Flood Situation Grave, Says SC

The Supreme Court today termed the Kerala flood situation...

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With Palm Oil Expansion, India is Blazing a Trail to a Parched Future

Madhu Ramnath 12/08/2018

To help the nation minimise its foreign currency expenditure,...

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Sterlite Copper Plant Row: NGT Declines Interim Relief to Vedanta

A bench headed by National Green Tribunal chairperson A....

A herd of elephants feeding near a tea estate. Credit: Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan

Elephants Living Around Humans Should Be More Stressed, Right? Well…

Janaki Lenin 17/07/2018

A new study suggests that if people chase and...

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

Vedanta Seeks to Stop Tamil Nadu’s Interference With Copper Smelter

Sudarshan Varadhan 04/07/2018

The smelter, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes a...

A cursory internet search will reveal that news articles regularly report the value of confiscated wildlife products either in attention-grabbing-in-your-face headlines or in the content. Credit: IanZA/pixabay

The Media’s Disservice to India’s Wildlife That Only It Can Fix

Chaitanya Krishna 02/07/2018

The current practice of reporting the monetary value of...

Water drawn from the handpump has a pronounced reddish tinge (left). The water bought from a private seller is much clearer. Credit: Disha Shetty

Thoothukudi’s Villages Are Paying a Price That No One Is Counting

Disha Shetty 27/06/2018

While the government sat back and watched as the...