Worldwide, the most successful conservation efforts have been those where local communities were made active stakeholders in conservation programmes....

Winters are extremely hectic for Sushma Patel, a vegetable grower in Uttar Pradesh’s Chunar town. Her farm is in the fertile plains of Ganga where...

Saima Bibi, a resident of Varanasi’s Nakki Ghat, has mastered the 500- year-old craft of making intricate motifs and fine zari works on silk saris...

When forest officials burnt down their makeshift houses near Derula village in 2012, people of Odisha’s nomadic Pauri Bhuyan community could have...

When Jual Oram, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, wrote to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik earlier this year, he fanned a simmering controversy....

Bastar district in southern Chhattisgarh has witnessed more forest fires between April 1 and May 5 this year compared to Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal,...

Delivering the 2016-17 Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government will partner with Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and...

Living in the dense sal forests of Maikal Hills, where streams intersect their homesteads, the Baigas in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh have...

Not very long ago, black rice (Oryza sativa) was forbidden in China. Not because it looked poisonous for its black colour, but because it had...

With 269 deaths and half the coastal districts including major areas of state capital Chennai under water, Central and state authorities were...

Nishchay Kashyap, 23, has stopped asking his parents for his fuel expenses. Pursuing a postgraduate degree from Delhi University’s Faculty of Law,...

On September 9, the Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO) informed the labour commissioner that it had started shutting down its rolling plant at Korba...