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Scorched Earth: Uttarakhand’s road to wildlife destruction

[ad_1] The second of a three-part series looks at the fallout of construction near wildlife habitats With the recent lifting of a ban on mining and a proposal to build a road through core tiger habitats in Uttarakhand, its fragile ecology is being threatened like never before. The second of a three-part series looks at the fallout of construction near…

What led to U-turn by environment ministry on Uttarakhands new dam projects?

On News Point, a debate on whether the government’s change of stand over new hydel projects in Uttarakhand is going to lead to another big disaster like the 2013 flood tragedy. The NDA government had told the Supreme Court in December that the existing as well as new projects had aggravated the tragedy in 2013 and therefore needed a comprehensive review. However after a meeting chaired by the…