Man-made Crisis

A trained gynecologist, Dr Gao became well-known and beloved across China in the late 1990s for her relentless activism in exposing a man-made AIDS crisis.

There could be a blackout in the national capital in the next two days if coal supplies to power plants do not improve, a Delhi minister said today.

The Congress on Thursday demanded a financial aid of Rs 5 lakh for every coronavirus victim after a fresh survey and said the amount of Rs 50,000 promised by the Centre is a "cruel joke" as the crisis in the country is clearly "man-made".

The Indian economy is doing well and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was used as a "puppet" by "people behind the scene", the BJP's Sambit Patra said on Monday, counterattacking the Congress veteran for his "man-made crisis" remark amid a financial slowdown.

One of India's largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. In the middle of a particularly hot summer, the four lakes that supply the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu have dried up; together they contain just 1% of the volume they did last year. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe o...

The immediate crisis of Kerala floods over, the opposition Congress has attacked the Left government, alleging that mismanagement of the dams led the devastating floods that claimed more than 250 lives in the state. Calling the floods a man-made disaster, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala demanded a judicial investigations into the decisions taken...

Gleaming new apartment blocks are still springing up all over the city known as India's Silicon Valley.

Every day more than 1,000 water tankers rumble past Nagraj's small plywood store in Bengaluru, throwing up clouds of dust as they rush their valuable cargo to homes and offices in the drought-stricken tech hub.

Once a well planned city, built on traditional principles, Leh today is just a gory reflection of it's past. Established centuries ago by the monks and its rulers, it was expanding fast, or so it appeared, until calamity struck.The symbols of a rapidly expanding Leh, reduced to rubble in just few hours. But was the tragedy a man-made one?All the st...

After every big downpour, Mumbai is choked and flooded. Is it only because the municipality is ill prepared?

A trained gynecologist, Dr Gao became well-known and beloved across China in the late 1990s for her relentless activism in exposing a man-made AIDS crisis.

There could be a blackout in the national capital in the next two days if coal supplies to power plants do not improve, a Delhi minister said today.

The Congress on Thursday demanded a financial aid of Rs 5 lakh for every coronavirus victim after a fresh survey and said the amount of Rs 50,000 promised by the Centre is a "cruel joke" as the crisis in the country is clearly "man-made".

The Indian economy is doing well and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was used as a "puppet" by "people behind the scene", the BJP's Sambit Patra said on Monday, counterattacking the Congress veteran for his "man-made crisis" remark amid a financial slowdown.

One of India's largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. In the middle of a particularly hot summer, the four lakes that supply the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu have dried up; together they contain just 1% of the volume they did last year. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe o...

The immediate crisis of Kerala floods over, the opposition Congress has attacked the Left government, alleging that mismanagement of the dams led the devastating floods that claimed more than 250 lives in the state. Calling the floods a man-made disaster, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala demanded a judicial investigations into the decisions taken...

Gleaming new apartment blocks are still springing up all over the city known as India's Silicon Valley.

Every day more than 1,000 water tankers rumble past Nagraj's small plywood store in Bengaluru, throwing up clouds of dust as they rush their valuable cargo to homes and offices in the drought-stricken tech hub.

Once a well planned city, built on traditional principles, Leh today is just a gory reflection of it's past. Established centuries ago by the monks and its rulers, it was expanding fast, or so it appeared, until calamity struck.The symbols of a rapidly expanding Leh, reduced to rubble in just few hours. But was the tragedy a man-made one?All the st...

After every big downpour, Mumbai is choked and flooded. Is it only because the municipality is ill prepared?