Kundan Pandey

Protests against the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh have turned violent after more than a year of peaceful demonstrations. On 4 October, protesters resisting the project were allegedly lathi charged by police and paramilitary forces in Uggeng village. The police action comes days after protesters attacked an MLA’s house and allegedly set […]

Climate impacts in India are becoming increasingly visible. As parts of the country, including Assam and Bihar , faced floods, drought was declared in Maharashtra , while others like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are facing drought-like situations. Even India's cities have not been spared by these climate impacts. The Reserve Bank of India has warned that extreme heat and humidity could put up to 4.5% of India's GDP at risk by 2030 through lost labour hours.

Repeated marine heatwaves are hitting reefs before they can fully recover, raising the risk of long-term decline.

The territory of the three-year-old tigress, known as T138, spreads across the grasslands east of the Pandai river in Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR). The area lies along the India-Nepal border and is part of the Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki transboundary tiger landscape. The tigress stalked spotted deer and wild pigs yet rarely encountered people.

As the Ganga Water Sharing Treaty with Bangladesh nears renewal, Bihar wants to resolve its demand for a fixed share of Ganga water during the lean period first.

India's updated Nationally Determined Contribution targets 60% non-fossil power capacity by 2035.

Every time a vehicle moves, its tyres shed tiny particles. Some of these particles carry a chemical that, in the U.S., was found killing salmon in urban streams after rain. India is selling more vehicles than ever before, yet experts say there is no data on how much of this chemical reaches the country's rivers.

The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry said that Nicobarese leaders seeking forest rights are “neither necessary nor proper parties."

For the past two months, 55-year-old Gangubai Laxmigan Shivale has been feeding her family on food bought from outside. “There is constant itching, and blood pours out if I scratch the rashes on my hand, so I can't cook,” says Shivale, a resident of Dattanagar, a residential area next to the Ambad industrial estate on the outskirts of Nashik city in Maharashtra. “We are a family of four, and we all sustain on samosas, vada pav and other food from outside.”

On October 11, 2026, a flash flood tore through Nepal's Budhi Gandaki river basin in Gorkha district, hurling sediment and debris downstream, destroying homes and roads, and leaving many others homeless.