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Tapping Traditional Watermills For Sustainable Energy Solutions

With increasing tourism, villages in the hilly state of Arunachal Pradesh are faced with an increased demand for seamless power…

2 months ago
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Joshimath’s Economy Suffers Blow As Tourist Numbers Dwindle

In January 2023, hundreds of houses in the pilgrimage town of Joshimath developed fissures due to sinking of the land.…

2 months ago
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U’khand Faces Tunnelling Disasters As Norms Are Ignored

In the early morning of 12 November 2023, a 57 metre wide section of an under-construction road tunnel in Uttarakhand…

3 months ago
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Long Dry Weather Hits J&K’s Forests, Glaciers And Water Bodies

Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing dry weather over the past six weeks, posing a significant threat to the region’s…

3 months ago
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Rethinking Infrastructure Development In The Himalayas

The Himalayan region has seen several extreme weather events and disasters this year. Experts have repeatedly raised concern about the…

4 months ago
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Will An Entry Fee Be Enough To Save Venice From 20 Mn Tourists?

Venice’s history, art and architecture attract an estimated 20 million visitors every year. The city, a Unesco World Heritage site,…

7 months ago
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Monsoon Leaves Widespread Destruction And Uneasy Questions In HP

This monsoon in Himachal Pradesh has seen an increase in the loss of human lives and the impact on infrastructure,…

7 months ago
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Hill Station Waste Needs Better Plan, Not Just Plastic Ban

Hill stations like Kodaikanal are faced with massive tourist influx, poor infrastructure, difficult terrain, unpredictable weather conditions and mounting solid…

8 months ago
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A Decade After The Floods, Is Kedarnath Safer?

The Kedarnath Valley, located above 3,500 metres in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, has changed significantly since it was…

9 months ago
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Danger Draws People To Adventure Tourism

The tragic news of the destruction of the Titan submersible has brought attention to the thrilling, dangerous and expensive world…

10 months ago
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Now, A Toolkit To Identify Areas That Have High Conservation Value

In conservation practice, how are protected areas identified and delineated? The first step in this is to be able to…

11 months ago
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Tourism Glut: Habitat Loss Pushes Endangered Species To The Edge

The picturesque Munnar in Kerala, with its lush green tea gardens carpet rolling hills, sits at the south of biodiversity…

11 months ago
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Who Is Extracting Goa’s Groundwater?

Erwin Fonseca, a 47-year-old farmer lives in Goa’s Assagao, a village near the coast in the northern district of the…

1 year ago
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Trouble Brews In The Taj Ganj Area As SC Order Creates Uncertainty

Already in deep crisis, the latest order of the Supreme Court banning commercial activities within 500 metres of the Taj…

2 years ago
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Concern Over Environmental Impact Of Tourism In Leh Grows

The opening of the Atal tunnel at the Rohtang Pass in October 2020 has facilitated an unprecedented increase in vehicular…

2 years ago
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How Tourism Fuels SE Asia’s Wildlife Trade

Tourist guides and information centres in Southeast Asia have been fuelling the illegal wildlife trade by facilitating consumption by tourists,…

3 years ago
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‘Covid Not Over’: Himachal CM Urges Tourists To Follow Norms

As a major influx of tourists is moving to the hills in search of some much-needed respite, Himachal Pradesh Chief…

3 years ago
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Taj Mahal Gets First Visitors As Covid-19 Infections Climb

India reopened the Taj Mahal after six months on Monday, with the first visitors trickling into the famous monument as…

4 years ago
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Covid-19 Visa Ban Plunges Tourism Into Crisis

Indian hotels and travel operators warned on Thursday their industry would suffer an unprecedented hit from the government’s decision to…

4 years ago
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CAA Stir: Tourists Skip Taj Mahal, Other Attractions

India’s tourism industry has been hit by a wave of violent anti-government protests against a new citizenship law that have…

4 years ago
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Kashmir Sees More Than $2.4 billion Losses Since Lockdown – Group

A lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir has cost its economy more than $2.4 billion since the government stripped it of its…

4 years ago
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Kashmir Shutdown Caused Losses Of More Than $1 Billion, Trade Body Says

Economic losses in Kashmir have run into well over a billion dollars since India revoked its autonomy and statehood in…

4 years ago
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Apples Rot In Kashmir Orchards As Lockdown Puts Economy In Tailspin

It’s harvest time, but the market in the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore - usually packed with people, trucks and…

5 years ago
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  • Politics & Society

This Is Why I Think Foreign Tourists In India Are A Racist, Parochial Lot

Through the past week, U.S. President Donald Trump has been raging on against four Democratic Congresswomen and inviting censure from…

5 years ago

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