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Amid a battle of narratives, clues from the burnt earth of Bengal speak of orchestration, not ‘organic’ violence ...
Many of these existing and planned facilities are located in freshwater biodiversity hotspots, including the Amazon, Congo, Ganges ... they profoundly disrupt river ecosystems.
A Review of Rajendra Alwis’s book ‘Siddhartha Gauthama’ Gautama Buddha has been such a towering figure for over twenty six ...
Look, at the haphazard way Radcliffe, a British Lord said to have had no previous experience in boundary making, unscientifically divided British India in to India and two Pakistans (West and East) in ...
etc.). These Punjab rivers instead flowed eastward into the Ganges river system. These rivers were soon “captured” by the Indus drainage system, significantly increasing the river’s discharge.
An ICIMOD report points to reduced water for 12 Asian river systems fed by the spring thaw on the Hindu Kush-Himalayan ...
The Indus originates from near Mount Kailash in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China and shares its headwaters with the ...
Rivers have been fragmented globally with over 2800 reservoirs with a surface area over 10 square kilometres. Many of these ...
This isn’t just a map of Cyprus. It’s THE map! The map that, for over 100 years, defined how our island was seen, measured and governed. The map that laid out not just borders and boundaries ...
Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...
He wasn’t entirely sure whether his illness had been caused by the 15-hour train journey or a week spent in Varanasi where he saw bodies openly cremated along the Ganges river, Mr Maddock said ...