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1 day ago | scroll.in | Ashwini Shukla

Supiyar Kanwar’s family grew wheat until the water ran dry. Digging deeper holes didn’t fix it. They switched to mustard, but the water table fell further. Their millet crop also dried up. They looked into micro irrigation, but after many failed tube wells and low water, they couldn’t afford it. Now, half the family has moved to the city to work in factories.

3 days ago | scroll.in | Reema Amin

In Delhi’s busy Karol Bagh area, there is a two-lane street called Faiz Road, divided by a metal fence. Strangely, however, it’s not very long, about one kilometre or under a mile. The neighbourhood is difficult to classify as either a commercial or residential area – it’s best described as a mix.

1 week ago | scroll.in | Arathi Menon

With a Supreme Court order halting tree felling that has stalled the Telangana government plans to auction disputed forest land adjoining the University of Hyderabad, the state is now considering an ecopark in the area, even as citizen protests continue. The Kancha Gachibowli Forest or KGF, an open natural ecosystem with a mix of dry deciduous and wet deciduous forests, savannah, scrubland, rocky outcrops and more, is one of the few lung spaces remaining around Hyderabad city.

1 week ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

On April 8, the Supreme Court decided in favour of the Tamil Nadu government in its case against Governor RN Ravi’s failure to sign bills into law. The court ruling, which stipulates time limits for governors to act on the bills sent to them, has become the latest flashpoint in the growing rancour between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre and opposition-ruled state governments.

1 week ago | scroll.in | Aatreyee Dhar

Adiram Reang, an indigenous farmer who belongs to the Autonomous District Council village of Bagmara, in Dhalai district, 125 km from the state capital Agartala, wanted to own Kanak Kaich bamboo plantations. But when he found out about Tripura’s State Bamboo Mission, about 15 years back, he decided it would not be a profitable venture. “From what I heard, the beneficiaries griped about the thorny quality bamboo that is not in demand for sale outside the state,” he said.