As Heat Waves Scorches India, Let’s Examine Political Parties’ Climate Change Commitments
Sakshi Srivastava, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: India’s scorching heat waves coincide with political pledges on climate change in the world's largest democracy. As parties unveil ambitious...
‘Chinar Man’: Transforming Mountains and Minds in Kashmir’s Frontier
Bhat Yasir, Umar Farooq, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Nestled within the rugged terrain of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara lies a remote village where a...
‘We Can’t Stay Silent’: New Delhi’s Ladakh Policies Fan Flames of Discontent
Zaid Bin Shabir, TwoCircles.net
Ladakh: For decades, Buddhists and other non-Muslim communities in Ladakh had desired for the day when they would be constituted as a...
‘God Has Finally Answered Our Prayers’: Fresh Snowfall Revives Dying Business in Kashmir
Irshad Hussain / Mubashir Naik , TwoCircles.net
After a months-long dry spell, the Kashmir valley finally received the much-anticipated first snowfall of the season in...
India’s Lithium Discovery Triggers Worry for People of Jammu
Gafira Qadir | Twocircles.net
“We thought it was our chance to become rich, so we celebrated the news but the happiness did not last for...
The Return Of Wild Boars in Kashmir Pose A New Threat To Agriculture And...
In the world's most militarised zone, the Kashmir valley, experts warn of a new threat to the region's already fragile biodiversity: a rising population...
इनोवेशन | एक माह में सोलर बाइक बनाने वाले असद की कहानी
फिल्म देखकर सात सीटर सोलर बाइक बनाई, आईआईटी कानपुर से बुलावा
यह कहानी है 23 वर्ष के असद की, जो बचपन से ही काफी...
Van Versus Vikas: New documentary dismantles mythology of India’s “progress” from worldview of Adivasi...
The film chronicles the resistance of an Adivasi family, along with other city activists and residents, to stop the Mumbai Metro Rail project...
Assam: Hundreds rendered homeless during eviction drive in Lakhimpur
The drive to evict encroachers from a forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district has left with 299 families in the lurch.
Afnan Habib |...
Four decades on, Bhopal gas tragedy victims yet to find closure
Many victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy still reel from the devastation that the incident caused in their lives.
Huneza Khan | TwoCircles.net
BHOPAL (MADHYA...
सर्दी आई तो हजारों किमी दूर दोआबा में माउंट एवरेस्ट लांघ आशियाना तलाशने चले...
आस एम कैफ । Twocircles.net
गंगा और यमुना के बीच का यह इलाका जिसे दोआब कहा जाता है पिछले कुछ सालों से नए कारणों को...
‘Struggling to breathe,’ Okhla residents bear brunt of waste-to-energy plant emitting toxic fumes
Residents of Oklha in New Delhi are up in arms against a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in the area which they blame for releasing toxic...
‘Inside the heart of the conflict’, a new book on Bastar & Kashmir challenges...
A new book ‘Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley: Stories From Bastar and Kashmir’ by author and journalist Freny Manecksha investigates how places can be drastically...
Jharkhand: For last 56 days, Adivasis are on hunger-strike against ‘illegal’ mining; govt unmoved
While the government of India makes claims of Sab Ka Vikaas (Development for everyone)—the concerns and voices of Dalits and Adivasis are often...
How coastal inhabitants of India make a living through seaweed cultivation
Seaweed is one among several renewable marine resources in India. Around 1000 coastal inhabitants of the country are engaged in the activity and...
Odisha: Villagers protesting construction of steel plant allege ‘police brutality during siege’
According to civil liberties group People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Odisha the bone of contention between the people of Dhinkia and law enforcement...
Adivasis from Chhattisgarh march to save their habitats from ‘hazards of coal mining’
Nearly 350 residents from the villages of central Chhattisgarh are on a 300-km long march that started on October 2 to reach the capital...
Himachal Pradesh: Is incompatible development damaging the state’s ecology, leading to natural calamities?
Several reports and statements by the local organizations, scholars, and activists have time and again warned against the impracticability of making large-scale hydropower projects...
Locals of a West Bengal village decry construction of Dolomite factory in area, say...
The construction of a Dolomite factory in Sishujhumra village of West Bengal has left residents aghast as the factory poses health and environmental hazards....
In Pictures: Climate refugees in Assam face ‘targeted evictions’, rue govt apathy
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) decision to take over the 77,000 bighas or 25454 acres of land would mean hundreds of families in Assam...
टीसीएन स्पेशल : मुश्किल है शिवालिक की पहाड़ियों में बसे वन गुर्जरो को...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net
स्थान - उत्तर प्रदेश - उत्तराखण्ड सीमा , मोह्नन्द , देहरादून मार्ग,शिवालिक रेंज
शिवालिक क्षेत्र की पहाड़ियों पर बसे हुए इन...
तस्वीरों में : समय से पहले बाढ़ जैसे हालात, फंसे लोग ,बहे जानवर
बिजनोर : उत्तराखंड में हो रही कई दिन से तेज़ बारिश के चलते गंगा किनारे के कई जनपदों में बाढ़ के हालात पैदा हो...
मुजफ्फरनगर में अभिनेता नवाजुद्दीन सिद्दीकी लगा रहे है 5 हजार नीम के पेड़
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net
फिल्म स्टार नवाजुद्दीन सिद्दीकी ने आज बुढाना पहुंचकर वृक्षारोपण की शुरूआत की है। नवाजुद्दीन ने 5 हजार नीम के पेड़ लगाने के...
TCN इम्पैक्ट : बदल गई ‘अजहरुद्दीन’ की किस्मत,अमेरिका से पढ़ाई का...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ। Twocircles.net
कबाड़ से इलेक्ट्रिक कार बनाने वाले मेरठ के मजदूर के बेटे अजहरुद्दीन की किस्मत बस बदलने ही वाली है। टीसीएन में...
पाठा का अमूल्य पानी : भौरा तेरा पानी ग़ज़ब करी जाए,गगरी न फूटै, खसम...
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जैसे जैसे गर्मियां बढ़ती है वैसे वैसे पाठा के जलश्रोत सूखने लगते हैं। आलम यूं हो जाता है...
“The sea was our home, now it’s the biggest threat,” residents in Sundarban delta...
Amid slogans of Jai Shri Ram and Jai Ma Durga in ongoing elections in West Bengal, all political parties have forgotten the Sundarbans island...
“Plant a seed even if it is your last deed,” Noora Zaineb, a 15-year-old...
Noora Zaineb is a young environmentalist who is on a mission on to plant trees across India. Her foundation Plants Our Passion has planted...
Misreporting Kerala elephant’s death sparks off wave of hate campaign against Muslims
TCN News
The death of a pregnant elephant in Palakkad District of Kerala has started a new wave of hatred towards the Muslim community of...
Economic and ecological disaster predicted as 16 million poplar trees are ordered to be...
Auqib Javeed,TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: The Union Territory Administration in Kashmir has started a massive axing and looping programme of Russian female poplar trees locally know as...
How Assam BJP government’s rebranded Land Policy is anti-minority
Mahibul Haque, Twocircles.net
While referring to the new Land Policy 2019, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a press conference in December last year...
तीन दशकों से भोपाल गैस पीड़ितों के संघर्ष की आवाज़ रहे अब्दुल जब्बार का...
By अनुज श्रीवास्तव, TwoCircles.net
भोपाल गैस त्रासदी के पीड़ितों को न्याय दिलाने के लिए संघर्ष करने वाले 62 वर्षीय अब्दुल जब्बार का गुरुवार को लंबी...
Health and Hygiene conditions in Hyderabad in an abysmal state Urgent need to...
TCN News
Several organisations have collectively submitted a representation to the Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, to take up the work of sanitation as...
Activist Medha Patkar ends hunger strike after 9 days
TCN News
Medha Patkar who along with 6 others was on a hunger strike to support thousands of people affected by the sardar sarovar dam,...
Environmentalists in Hyderabad express concern over the violation of sanctity of lakes this Ganesh...
TCN News
The environment activists of SOUL (Save our Lakes) have written an open letter questioning the Government of Telangana about the decision to perform...
Centre releases Rs. 1,146 crore to TN as cyclone relief
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Centre has approved an additional assistance of Rs. 1,146 crore to Tamil Nadu for providing relief to those...
Islamic social organisations provide releif to Gaja Cyclone victims
TCN News
Gaja cyclone that hit coastal and delta districts in Tamil Nadu created a heavy loss uprooting thousands of acres of coconut grooves, several...
Funds meant for Bhopal gas tragedy survivors misused by BJP minister
By Pervez Bari
Bhopal: The representatives of the four NGOs (non-Government organizations) working for the welfare of the survivors of the Union Carbide Bhopal gas tragedy,...
Society faces much larger threat from climate change than perceived
Honolulu, (IANS) Society faces a much larger threat from climate change than previous studies have suggested. By 2100 the number of hazards occurring concurrently...
Kerala Muslim Community Association from North California contributes Rs 25 lakh for flood relief
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
The Kerala Muslim Community Association (KMCA), an organisation of Malayali Muslims in North California, has contributed Rs 25 lakh to the...
Cyclone Gaja enters TN coast; leaves 11 dead
Chennai, Nov 16 (IANS) Severe cyclonic storm Gaja crossed the Tamil Nadu coast on Friday, felling several trees, damaging thatched huts and hoardings, according...
60% wildlife wiped out, ours last generation that could act: WWF report
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Over-exploitation of nature has wiped out about 60 per cent of the wildlife and 87 per cent wetlands since...
Himalayas facing severe global warming disruption, say foresters
By Vishal Gulati
Shimla, Oct 24 (IANS) Being sensitive to temperature variations, mountain ecosystems in the Himalayas are facing severe disruption from global warming as...
Sacrifice at the altar of development
By Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey
The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute...
India must limit global warming increase
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Even with an increase of little over one degree Celsius in global warming, India is being battered by the...
Kerala braces for more rains; red alert in two districts, dam gates opened
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
Kozhikode: One month after the deadly floods of August, Kerala is bracing for more rains. Following the prediction of heavy to...
A school rebuilt in 72 hours: Keralites once again show exemplary community work
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
When the deadly monsoon wreaked havoc in Kerala, it didn’t spare even the schools where little kids come to take their...
GHMC admits that 3.25 acres of land affected due to beautification work of Malkam...
By TCN News:
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has admitted in its counter affidavit before the Chief Justice, High Court, Hyderabad on 5th...
बाढ़ : सुशासित बिहार में 250 दलित सड़क पर रहने को मजबूर
फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
बेलसर : बिहार सरकार द्वारा विकास के दावों के बीच आज वहां गया जिले में बेलसर गाँव के दलित टोले में रहने...
Save Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand, Save River Ganga
By TCN News:
Swami Gyanswaroop Sanand is an important figure in the field of environmental engineers in India. Formerly known as Professor G.D. Agarwal, he has been a...
Monsoon wreaks havoc in Kerala; death toll rises to 29 as help pours in...
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
Kozhikode: With heavy rains continuing to wreak havoc in the state, Kerala is facing its heaviest calamity in decades. A total...
What if UNESCO withdraws Taj’s world heritage site title, asks SC
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 26: Slamming both the Central and Uttar Pradesh government for the neglect of Taj Mahal, the Supreme Court on Thursday wondered what...
Taj Mahal area should be no-plastic zone, polluting industries shut: UP to SC
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government, in its first draft report of its 'Vision Document' on protection and preservation of...
Dubai honours Indian expat for ‘green message’
By IANS
Dubai : The Dubai Municipality has honoured a 10-year-old Indian expat
who turned his love for the World Cup into an innovative way to...