-AFP GENEVA: The El Nino weather phenomenon could return within days but will be relatively weak compared with past episodes, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday. The surface of the Pacific warmed in July and August, providing part of the mix necessary for El Nino to develop, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. There is a "moderately high likelihood for El Nino conditions to develop during September or October," the WMO said. If it...
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Water around Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is dangerous: Report in Supreme Court-A Vaidyanathan and Samira Shaikh
-NDTV The Supreme Court has been told that the Water around the former Union Carbide plant at Bhopal is contaminated and not fit for consumption. The report was filed today by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow, which collected 26 samples from around the factory, from where a poisonous gas leak in 1984 led to the deaths of more than 15,000 people, creating the world's largest industrial disaster. The leak...
More »Tharu Tribals Facing Threat of Displacement -Kundan Kumar
-Outlook Tharu tribals residing in 300 forested villages surrounding the Valmiki Nagar Tiger reserve in Bihar's West Champaran district are likely to be displaced if a proposal to increase the area of the tiger reserve is implemented. The tiger reserve area is proposed to be increased from 335 square kms at present to 599 square kms to create a core and buffer zones, an official of the sanctuary said. CPI(M-L) Liberation leader Kumar...
More »Simple & cheap solution to India's grave Water crisis: Waste Water recycling-Sanjay Vijayakumar
-The Economic Times Where will India get its Water from in the coming years? The Water challenge is already grave and could get graver. By 2050, for instance, it is estimated that demand would go up to 1,180 million cubic metres, 1.65 times the current levels, a situation that would be made worse by fast dwindling fresh Water resources. That's why desalination — removing salt from seaWater to make fresh Water —...
More »Midnight’s children-Purnima S Tripathi
-Frontline Members of denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, treated as criminal tribes by the colonial rulers, have no place to call their own and no land, no rights, and no support from the government. Emaciated, eyes sunken deep into sockets, skin hanging loose, almost gasping for breath, Indro Devi and Sarvnath, a couple in their eighties, lie on polythene sheets in an 8×10 square-foot tent made of rags, by a stinking nullah...
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