India’s lifeline, the southwest monsoon, has stopped in its tracks. Climate scientists are trying to put up a brave front, claiming that it will revive within a week, but it is obvious that the monsoon is not behaving as predicted.

A good rainfall in July is very crucial for agriculture as sowing for the kharif crop is at its peak during this period. Over 235 million farmers across the country have been praying for a normal monsoon season this year against the backdrop of a severe drought last year.

Recent agreement by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) to buy half the power generated by the 16 mw municipal solid waste-based power plant being set up by the Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management Company Private Limited (TOWMCL) in Delhi has triggered off a fresh debate on how to dispose off the city’s waste.

A mini Bhopal-type tragedy has happened near Indore with six workers hospitalised on Friday afternoon after being nearly blinded by poisonous fumes emanating from an incineration plant in Pithampur near Indore.

Gross discrepancies in figures have crept in between the actual numbers of gas victims and what has been recommended by the GoM for the Bhopal gas disaster.
Records show that a study of gas victims conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Bhopal, which was subsequently placed before the Supreme Court, show that over 5,00,000 residents belonging to 36 of the 56 municipal wards had been affected by the gas leak.

Tiger conservation took a major hit when senior forest officials found the president of the local Eco (logical) Samiti carrying four tiger paws to the house of a local tantric in order to conduct a sp

Rising food prices and growing unemployment across South Asia has created a crisis situation where India is unlikely to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for poverty alleviation.

India is fast emerging as the dumping ground of carcinogenic white asbestos whose exposure results in cancer.
Fifty per cent of this white asbestos being imported to India comes from Canada which is heavily subsidising this industry but has drastically cut down its usage in its own country.

A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)

India is facing the inevitable toss up between saving its forests and following a fast growing development paradigm.