Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined the importance of people’s participation in the efforts for water conservation and said the governments’ attempts...
In possibly the most ambitious change to India’s water governance since the founding of the country in 1947, the central government is...
Nearly a thousand people have been killed by floods in Nepal, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam in India, and in Bangladesh. Almost...
Odisha is struggling to recover post cyclone ‘Fani. The death toll has now according to media reports reached 35 . What is...
Anurag Verma is a rich and curious farmer. His gently waving fields of wheat are ready to ripen, but he is wondering...
The battles of yesterday were fought over land; those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over...
South Asia is witnessing unprecedented water challenges and risks. The impacts are wide-spread and intense. From receding glaciers in the Himalayas to...
People have tended to see rivers merely as cubic metres of water to be dammed and diverted, but rivers need to be...
When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping held an informal summit on April 27-28, involving a cruise on...
The omens for this summer are bad in South Asia. Afghanistan received the lowest snowfall in years, spiking fears of a drought....