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Once known as ‘Little Taiwan,’ this Chinese fishing village was home to 2,000 people, now a ghost town 40 miles from ShanghaiHoutouwan, a former prosperous fishing village, now stands abandoned and overgrown with vegetation. Residents left due to limited transport...- Can a giant seawall save Indonesia's disappearing coast?The encroaching ocean laps against a road in Karminah's village, threatening her home on Indonesia's Java island, where the government says...
- Indus water drying, 12 lakh people moved out: Pakistan’s river-dependent region faces existential crisisPakistan Indus Water: Saltwater intrusion in Pakistan's Indus delta, exacerbated by reduced river flow due to dams, irrigation, and climate...
- Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinksHabibullah Khatti prepares to leave his village due to seawater intrusion in the Indus delta. Many villages disappeared, and the population...
- From guns to gills: PM hails transformation of ex-Naxalites into fish farmers in JharkhandPrime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the transformation of former Naxalites in Jharkhand's Gumla district, who embraced fish farming, during...
- From guns to gills: How fish farming is transforming former Naxalites in JharkhandA central government scheme is helping former insurgents in eastern Jharkhand. They are now choosing fishing over violence. The Pradhan Man...
- Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 peoplePeople in Indonesia's Aceh province marked 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami by praying and visiting mass graves. Many survivors stil...
- Villagers in Sundarbans are eating expensive hilsa fish in breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Read whyVillagers in Sundarbans are enjoying a large catch of hilsa fish, as local fishermen have netted plentiful quantities of juvenile hilsa. Du...
- Transmission of coronavirus through water is not a concern, say expertsTare said dumping bodies in the Ganga or its tributaries is not new, but it has come down significantly in the last 10-15 years.
- Terror alert: It could be Gujrat, not GujaratThe purported alert sounded by the central intelligence agencies said that 10 suspected fidayeens had entered Gujarat and could carry out a...
- Take a two-hour flight from Copenhagen to Faroe Islands for a hiking paradiseStrolling around the streets of Tórshavn, tourists can walk into designer stores, gourmet restaurants and have an interesting chat with the...
- Keoladeo National Park faces survival threatWith water bodies around the park drying up, no fish to feed, no nests to be raised, KNP is in for a catastrophe.
- Villagers hail order banning coal mining in MeghalayaFishing in the river had provided the villagers their primarily means of income, farming being an alternative source, from time immemorial.
- 651 abandoned emus up for auctionSince maintenance of the emu birds, abandoned by the fraudsters in the contract farming scam, was a costly affair for the state government,...
- Abandoned emus bleed governmentSaving the thousands of emus abandoned by promoters after the scam came to light is proving to be a costly affair for the government.
- PM says Kudankulam failure will hurt Tamil Nadu development; anti-nuke outfit condemns PM's letter to JayalalithaaThe PM's letter came on a day when protestors at Idinthakarai village, where 106 of them on the fourth day of fast, hardened their position.
- Kudankulam protestors harden standThe PM sent another reminder to Jayalalithaa that the commissioning of the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam was in her state's interest.
- Travelog: State-of-art hotels, hot eateries and Jet linksFive hotels in India figure in the 2009 Conde Nast Hotlist. Neeleshwar in Kasaragod, Kerala, which has 16 traditional thatched-roof cottage...
- Did Gujarati fishermen aid Mumbai strike?Senior intelligence sources pointed out that all the fishermen were dead and did not leave anything, say GPS, which could help the agencies...
- Calm & furyBoth the serenity of Devon and the wild beauty of the Cornish coast will definitely leave you speechless.
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