The reshaping of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms by bringing young adults’ sexual choices under the radar of the state has sinister…
India’s new code throws into doubt whether its citizens are truly protected from the arbitrary exercise of power by public…
Efforts to address social issues risk being co-opted for political gain or used to further divisive agendas. When the state…
In January 2023, hundreds of houses in the pilgrimage town of Joshimath developed fissures due to sinking of the land.…
"Remove Van Gujjars from the forests … and all the animals will die of thirst,” says Mohammad Safi, a community…
The Uttarakhand government tabled the Uniform Civil Code Bill in the assembly on Tuesday. Following this, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, said…
In the early morning of 12 November 2023, a 57 metre wide section of an under-construction road tunnel in Uttarakhand…
The Himalayan region has seen several extreme weather events and disasters this year. Experts have repeatedly raised concern about the…
In the Kumaon mountains in the central sector of Uttarakhand’s Himalayas, a team of scientists from the Indian Institute of…
It was the first Monday of August. Anjali Lakra, 38, a resident of Tetri village, which borders the sal forests…
When a spike of rainfall hit the Indian state of Uttarakhand from early July to late August 2023, the town…
The Kedarnath Valley, located above 3,500 metres in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, has changed significantly since it was…
As soon as reports of cracks developing in houses started pouring in from Uttarakhand’s Joshimath town, in early January, the…
Sabhalgarh Compartment 8, in the Haridwar forest division is known to the residents as Gaindi Khatta. This is a settlement…
Neema Devi sits with her sister-in-law, Prema Devi, threshing wheat by hand in the village of Dhudholi, in the Indian…
After the natural disaster in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, geologists and activists working on environmental protection in Sikkim are a worried lot. Like…
“We had to come to our homes many times in a day from the relief camp we were staying at…
Nearly four months since Joshimath made headlines as the "sinking town", the gateway to Himalayan pilgrimage sites is yet to…
On January 1 this year, when everyone was welcoming the new year, residents of Panthar village in Chaubattakhal tehsil (district…
(Source: PTI) Joshimath is a town on the edge. It’s the very precipice for thousands of people, despairing as the…
(Source: PTI) A team of experts from CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) will be leaving for Joshimath in Uttarakhand, which…
The Himalayan town of Joshimath is sinking. Its houses have been declared dangerous to live in and hitherto, 600 families…
(Source: PTI) The Congress on Monday demanded that the land subsidence situation in Uttarakhand's Joshimath should be declared a national…
In July 1970, devastating floods swept through the Alaknanda Valley, in northern India. Sudden, intense rainfall had caused a violent…
People's anger over the murder of Ankita Bhandari, who worked as a receptionist at a resort in Uttarakhand's Pauri district…
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