Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Gadgil, who predicted Kerala floods in 2011, says Goa is next if precautions aren't taken

Noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil has warned Goa may face the same fate as the flood-battered Kerala if it does not take precautions on the environmental front.

Drought in the Western Ghats Part 1: Urbanisation demands see hills sacrificed to whims of mining, industry lobbies

The towering Western Ghats, one of the world's largest natural areas of biodiversity, and providing magnificent green cover over south India, is under threat. And with its destruction, south India is becoming more and more parched every year

Wikiconference India 2016: Wikipedia's plans for growth in India are unclear

Fifteen years after Wikipedia was born, a dozen years after it became popular and roughly a decade after it began drawing serious attention in India, campaigners building the world's most ambitious and freely sharable online Wikipedia are still wondering how to really take it forward in this part of the globe.

Goa CM Parrikar to ask Modi govt for more IAS officers

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will be in the national capital on 3 June with several demands including sanctioning of more Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers for the state.

UPA's economic policies have imposed burden on people: Yechury

Lashing out at the Congress-led UPA government, CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said its economic policies have imposed a burden on the people.

Kerala: Protests turn violent after MoEF bans development in W-Ghats

Parties and farmers outfits in Kerala, cutting across political divide, on Friday staged violent street protests opposing the Centre's decision to implement key suggestions of a committee on Western Ghats conservation, alleging it would lead to largescale displacement of settler farmers.

Gadgil report not mandatory for giving clearance in W Ghats: NGT

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday said that it is no longer mandatory for the environment ministry to refer to Gadgil panel's report while deciding applications for clearance for projects in permissible areas of the western ghats.

'Fragile Western Ghats prone to disaster if conservation delayed'

The extremely fragile Western Ghats region is highly prone to natural calamities and chances of an Uttarakhand-like tragedy in the region cannot be ruled out if scientific conservation initiatives are not being implemented at the earliest, says a leading environmentalist.

Madhav Gadgil opposes Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats

Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil, who headed a committee that authored a study on the Western Ghats, Friday criticised the decision of the union ministry of environment and forests to create "ecologically sensitive areas" in the area.

Chandy seeks political consensus on Western Ghats report

Concerned over the difficulties that implementation of the Kasturirangan report on protection of the Western Ghats would pose to Kerala, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has called an all-party meet on 21 October to work out a political consensus on the issue.