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![Large areas remain inundated [image by: Madhav Bhattacharya]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Assam-floods-2-Third-pole-e1529578320617.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
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556EnvironmentAnother year, another mismanaged flood response in Assam And North East
Kamalakhya Dey Purkaystha, a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly, led the boat that carried the bodies of Mishu Malakar and Kulendra...
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506Environment
Delhi’s Groundwater Plummets
As the summer season begins in the Indian subcontinent, Delhi’s groundwater crisis has become severe. Groundwater levels have been dropping for years...
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494Environment
Community-led Strategies Offer Hope For East Himalayan Biodiversity
The Singchung Bugun Village Community Reserve, an NGO from the West Kameng district of India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, won the...
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405Impact
India’s Poorest Homes Still Await Electricity
Moyna is in class six and has to study by the light of a kerosene lamp or candles to finish her homework....
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519Books
Book Review: ‘Dawn of the solar age’ By Prem Shankar Jha
At a time when the global effort to counter climate change hangs in the balance, Prem Shankar Jha has delivered a...
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622Environment
Will The New Yamuna River Project Clean Up The River?
By Anasuya Basu Many studies have been conducted in the past on cleaning up the massively polluted Yamuna river and how to...
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512Environment
Going beyond the mega project mindset is a must for India-Nepal relations
Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli has returned to Kathmandu after a three-day visit to India that lasted from April 6-8. It...
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553Environment
Kashmir water crisis hits at its staple: Rice
Western South Asia looks set for an increasingly dry summer, with NASA predicting drought in Afghanistan over low snowfall this winter, but...
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364Environment
With Low Water Reserves, A Blistering Indian Summer
The omens for this summer are bad in South Asia. Afghanistan received the lowest snowfall in years, spiking fears of a drought....
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658Environment
Hydropower in the Himalayas: the economics that are often ignored
Of all Himalayan nations, China has made the most progress towards hydropower development. This has been driven by three major factors. First,...
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![A man selling refrigerated water on Delhi’s street [image by: Chris Wilson]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/delhi-water-trolley-1020x680-e1529052097166.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![A man selling refrigerated water on Delhi’s street [image by: Chris Wilson]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/delhi-water-trolley-1020x680-e1529052097166.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![While the government may have set up electricity poles, the lines often do not reach the villages of the marginalised, or the marginalised within villages [image by: Harini Calamur/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/wired-Harini-Calamur-1020x765-e1527770702678.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![While the government may have set up electricity poles, the lines often do not reach the villages of the marginalised, or the marginalised within villages [image by: Harini Calamur/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/wired-Harini-Calamur-1020x765-e1527770702678.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Mahakali river site at Bramhadev, Kanchanpur [image by: Bhaskar Bhattarai / USAID]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mahakali-river-site-1020x573-e1524825809143.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Mahakali river site at Bramhadev, Kanchanpur [image by: Bhaskar Bhattarai / USAID]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mahakali-river-site-1020x573-e1524825809143.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![A farmer working in his rice farm in Zangam-Pattan, north Kashmir [image by: Athar Parvaiz]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Kashmir01-1020x663-e1524034186728.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![A farmer working in his rice farm in Zangam-Pattan, north Kashmir [image by: Athar Parvaiz]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Kashmir01-1020x663-e1524034186728.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Young girls at a well in Gujarat, which is already facing a water scarcity [image by: Mark Charmer]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mark-Charmer-1020x621-e1523433121998.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Young girls at a well in Gujarat, which is already facing a water scarcity [image by: Mark Charmer]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mark-Charmer-1020x621-e1523433121998.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![The problems with resettlement and rehabilitation was one of the reasons of the escalating social costs of the Tehri dam [image by: Sharada Prasad CS]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/himalayas-e1522829072119.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![The problems with resettlement and rehabilitation was one of the reasons of the escalating social costs of the Tehri dam [image by: Sharada Prasad CS]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/himalayas-e1522829072119.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
