-The Hindu In the newly proposed draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment, the Central government offers a way out to those who have violated environmental norms The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has issued a draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) of 2006, allowing those who violate this law to continue work with an Environment Supplement Plan (ESP). This is the first...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A month has gone by since the Supreme Court issued directions to tackle drought but it is "business as usual" for the Centre and the affected states, civil society organisations have said. Worse, government intervention is even less than what it used to be in colonial times, they said. A quarter of the country is drought-hit at present. On May 11, the apex court had pronounced the Centre guilty...

-The Hindu A better approach to man-wildlife conflict management requires an integration of scientific evidence, animal behaviour, and landscape and socio-economic context The difference of views on the killing of wild animals between a former and a sitting Environment Minister of the ruling party — one in favour, the other against — has hit the front pages. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recently permitted three States, Uttarakhand, Bihar, and...

-Scroll.in The number of people living in modern slavery in India rose by 4.1 million in the last two years, showed the Global Slavery Index, 2016 “No one can imagine such a painful life. There is much torture on me and I am punished even for my minor mistakes like a child. My family is always living under threats. There is also physical violence against me and my family members.” This is a...

-The Hindu Business Line   Icrisat-Microsoft develop solution that analyses massive data to predict the right time Hyderabad: Forget about weather SMSes or marketing tips to farmers over the phone. Now, an app-based solution can tell farmers when to sow their seeds. Sifting massive volumes of data, this app will help farmers in Andhra Pradesh to pick the perfect sowing week. The advice could vary from farmer to farmer and from village to...