Environmental Damage
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By financing environmentally damaging projects, can Indian funders be held liable?
Banks and financial institutions in India have no internal mechanisms to address the broader costs of investing in risky projects.
Amitanshu Verma & Nancy Pathak
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Deluge of sand and silt from Sikkim flood destroys farming, fishing downstream of Teesta river
Fish stocks have depleted due to water contamination while crops are struggling to grow in the river basin in North Bengal due to the altered landscape.
Arunima Kar
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Manipur: Heavy fuel from power plant leaks into streams that meet Imphal River
Videos on social media showed the water body catching fire in some places.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Joshimath continues to sink as the government plows ahead with giant projects
The Himalayan town is an exception with most residents wanting to stay on instead of migrating out. Rendering their homes inhabitable cannot be ‘development’.
Shruti Jain
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A decade after the devastating Kedarnath floods, is the fragile region any safer?
The August 4 landslide that hit the pilgrimage route is a fresh reminder of the area’s vulnerability.
Sandhya Agrawal & Aniket Singh Chauhan
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Mount Everest: As mass mountaineering peaks, it is time to reckon with its environmental impacts
May 29 will mark 70 years since Mount Everest was first ascended but the dangers of modern-day commercialisation and pollution may put an end climbing itself.
Yana Wengel, The Conversation, Adele Doran, The Conversation & Michal Apollo, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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How the world’s chocolate habit has taken a massive toll on the cocoa-growing forests of West Africa
The land area devoted to cocoa is enormous – at seven million hectares of plantations – across the world’s major producing countries: Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Wilma Hart, The Conversation
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Crores for construction, crores for disaster relief: India’s expensive Himalayan hydropower projects
Public funds are flowing into building dams, which can stretch into decades, and to pay for the series of climate-linked disasters in the mountains.
Chandra Prabha & Ashish Fernandes
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Why gold mining is one of the most destructive and unnecessary industries
In a given year, gold mines emit more greenhouse gases than all passenger flights between European nations combined.
Stephen Lezak, The Conversation
The Reel
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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In Assam, new oil pipelines threaten protected forests and endangered species
Nearly 3,000 trees are to be felled during the construction of oil and gas pipelines in North East India.
Gurvinder Singh
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SC panel holds ex-Uttarakhand minister responsible for illegal construction in Corbett Tiger Reserve
Over 6,000 trees were illegally cut by the state government in the Corbett Tiger Reserve for the project when Harak Singh Rawat was the forest minister.
Scroll Staff
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‘Pristine habitat’: 87 ex-bureaucrats ask President Droupadi Murmu to halt Great Nicobar project
The project involves the construction of a Rs 35,000-crore trans-shipment port, an international airport, a power plant, a township and tourism infrastructure.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals hold their nerve to beat Gujarat Titans in a high-scoring thriller
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Boxing: Preeti to headline India’s 50-member squad for Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championship
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: Odisha FC beat Mohun Bagan Super Giant in first leg of semi-final
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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Indian men’s and women’s compound teams through to finals
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ISL 2023-24: How first-time head coach Petr Kratky helped Mumbai City FC pick up the pieces