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Your dirty clothes could be causing Yamuna to froth: How the government plans to stop Delhi’s river from turning whiteDelhi's Yamuna River is frothing due to high pollution, particularly surfactants from detergents. A TERI study proposes a multi-departmenta...- India's long-distance trains aren't a journey, it's all of lifeDespite India's advancements in technology and the economy, long-distance train travel remains stuck in the past, with journeys like Mumbai...
- India was ready to get a new hill station near Mumbai. But, it is now a ghost townLavasa, India's first planned private hill city near Pune, was envisioned as a European-style utopia with open promenades, waterfronts, and...
- How the dream of an idyllic private hill city took shape — and then crashed into realityLavasa, India's first new hill station since the end of British colonial rule, has been given a new lease of life. After being partially bu...
- Nepal's holy Bagmati river choked with black sewage, trashTainted by garbage and raw sewage that is dumped directly into the waterway, Nepal's holiest river has deteriorated so greatly that today i...
- Is climate change the culprit behind floods and farming woes?From the floods of Houston to those in Gujarat, from Niger to Mumbai, climate change may not be the central trigger, but it may be aggravat...
- Land snails in bright hues need study for protectionThe brightly coloured land snail Indrella ampulla is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, but what it looks like would depend largely on...
- Wetland studies to preserve perennial riversThey are the storehouses of water at the highest level one can imagine, formed naturally several thousands of years ago.
- Two-member committee to probe recovery of 100 skeletonsThe decaying remains were perhaps of those who were given river burials upstream and the bodies seemed to have accumulated over months, pol...
- Corporates could be roped in to rejuvenate decaying ghats in VaranasiThe 100 ghats at Varanasi have immense spiritual attraction, drawing foreign and domestic tourists, but have been neglected for years.
- Narendra Modi versus Arvind Kejriwal: Will the Varanasi battle go down to the wire?The voting pattern in Varanasi could be neatly divided into upper caste Hindus favouring Modi & the Muslims and Dalits siding with Kejriwal.
- Varanasi: Narendra Modi reigns as Arvind Kejriwal seen as Delhi deserterThe man on the street says it is going to be a big Modi victory. But the detailed calculations are as yet impossible as the Congress candid...
- Spider numbers dip in Melghat forest reserveThe rich diversity of spiders in the Melghat forest reserve is facing severe threat from trading, urbanisation and forest fires among other...
- Mass cremation process on, rescue from Badrinath haltedAmid fears of epidemic outbreak, the mass cremation process in Kedarnath, worst-hit in the Uttarakhand flash floods, was expedited.
- Bad weather halts rescue operations in BadrinathPriests carried out the last rites of the victims, which had resumed yesterday after they were suspended because of inclement weather.
- Cloud Physics Lab in Maharashtra to gather data on monsoon seasonMahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats range near here, now has a unique landmark for weather scientists in the form of a High Altitude Cloud P...
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