Chetan Chauhan

New Delhi

National Affairs Editor at Hindustan Times

CEO & Chief Editor at Newz Daddy

NATIONAL EDITOR @htTweets Interests in environment, climate, economy, farmers and politics. Simply pahadi. RTs personal views, not of employer

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Ecostani: India walking out of the Indus Waters Treaty and its hydrological impact

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

Pakistan has promised reciprocal moves and warned that any disruption to its water supply would be considered “an act of war.” Pakistan has decided to suspend the Simla agreement that provided for border management between the two countries. The Indus River has supported life for thousands of years since the Harappan civilisation, which flourished around 2600 to 1900 BCE in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.
DMK faces formidable challenge as AIADMK, BJP join hands again in Tamil Nadu

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has allied with the All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for next year’s Tamil Nadu assembly elections, 19 months after snapping ties, making the contest bipolar with the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led grouping. The AIADMK and the BJP contested the 2019 parliamentary and the 2021 assembly elections together, but the DMK-led alliance got the better of them. Their ties soured with K Annamalai’s appointment as the BJP state chief in July 2021.
Ecostani: Arvind Kejriwal’s Punjab political gambit

1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

It’s a common sight these days: Escort vehicles belonging to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) party leaders from Punjab parked outside Arvind Kejriwal’s Ferozeshah Road home in New Delhi, slowing down traffic on the busy road and fueling speculation about the beleaguered former Delhi chief minister’s next political move.
Ecostani: Link between rise in wildfires and atmospheric convection

2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The study titled, ‘Convective potential and fuel availability complement near-surface weather in regulating global wildfire activity’ said that enhanced atmospheric convection is identified for over 40% of the fires in low-human-impact regions and 61% in other places, where local ignition is also available.
Ecostani | History not on beleaguered Arvind Kejriwal’s side for political revival

2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

It also has a majority in the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) with three AAP councillors switching over to the BJP. With this latest switchover, the BJP’s tally in MCD has increased to 116 from 104 seats won in 2023 and the AAP is down to 114 compared to 134 earlier. Now, the BJP has full control over Delhi — local government, municipal bodies and land and law and order through the Central government, as defined under the National Capital Territory Act, 1991.
Tiger area rose 30% in 12 years: Study

Jan 31, 2025 | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

New Delhi: Tigers expanded their area by around 30% (33,127 sq km) between 2006 and 2018 with the most increase seen in proximity to protected areas (and in areas with lower population densities and higher wealth), highlighting the possibility of human and tiger coexistence, a new paper says.
Ecostani: UCC implementation could start a new divisive political fight

Jan 27, 2025 | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The law is, however, seems to impose certain restrictions on the Muslim community as it would prohibit certain marriage practices such as men allowed to marry four times and marriage among extended family members. Muslim women right activists have welcomed the UCC with regard to ending of polygamy, saying that such gender unequal Shariah rule needs to be abolished in a modern society.
Ecostani: BJP hopes Congress will eat into AAP’s core support groups in Delhi

Jan 13, 2025 | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The BJP has never fallen below 30% in Delhi assembly polls for three decades, which indicates a robust vote base. But, so far, it has lacked the all-critical edge to cross the 42% to 45% vote-share mark to form the government here. And, the reason is its poor performance among voters living in slums, unauthorised colonies and lower middle-class localities where the BJP is perceived as a party of upper castes and richer trader and business communities.
Ecostani: Why the landmark RTI act is moribund and who is to blame

Dec 8, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The only law in India that authorises people to question those in power, the Right To Information (RTI) Act, has been weakened in several states including those ruled by the Congress, the party that introduced the landmark transparency law in 2005. In many states, state information commissions (SICs) have been defunct for several years as the information commissioners, who hear the RTI appeals, have not been appointed.
Ecostani: Baku shows India cannot hide behind global south in climate talks

Nov 24, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Chetan Chauhan

The climate conference at Baku adopted a text on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) or climate finance of US $300 billion by 2035 but it falls far short of the money needed to fight climate crisis. The world had committed $100 billion at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2010, to be collected by 2020, but by 2024, the money is still not on the table for developing countries to tackle the impact of climate change.