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Angana Chakrabarti

- India
- December 09, 2019, 08:35 IST
'Will Never Forget What I Saw': Eyewitnesses Recount Horror of Delhi Blaze That Killed 43
According to officials, the fire was triggered by a short circuit on the fourth floor of the building that was being used as a plastics factory.
- India
- December 02, 2019, 09:05 IST
In Deep Waters: Delhi Govt is Owed Rs 9,323 Cr in Unpaid Bills; Northern Railways Biggest Defaulter
The biggest defaulter is the Northern Railways, under the ministry of railways, which owes Rs 4,192.55 crore – 44 per cent of the total amount owed to the Delhi government.
- India
- November 13, 2019, 17:19 IST
Depleted Workforce and Delayed Processes: Why Delhi-NCR Struggles to Fight Pollution
A handful of employees at various pollution control agencies struggle to implement the Graded Response Action Plan, while crucial proposals to strengthen the system get implemented sluggishly.
- India
- November 05, 2019, 16:39 IST
How a Potent Mix of Water Crisis, Mechanisation & Climate Change Stoke Stubble Burning & Pollution
As the capital chokes in a toxic haze that was described by the Supreme Court on Monday as “worse than the Emergency”, and politicians across parties blame each other, experts point out that the 2009 Punjab Preservation of Subsoil Water Act changed the “timing of the burning”.
- India
- October 30, 2019, 11:14 IST
As Delhi Chokes from Dip in Air Quality, Here's Why Measures to Check Stubble Burning Have Failed
From September 23 to October 27, a total of 12, 027 stubble burning incidents were recorded in Punjab, a whopping increase of 2,427 from last year.
- India
- October 12, 2019, 08:02 IST
After Clear Air Post-Dussehra, Delhi to Struggle for Breath Once Again as Pollution to Rise From Today
The Central Pollution Control Board’s data on Wednesday, a day after Dussehra, recorded AQI at 173 on the index, a drastic decrease from last year’s 373.
- India
- September 18, 2019, 10:58 IST
From Diet to Disease, the Climate Crisis is Taking a Toll on Women’s Health in Himalayas
Researchers say cases of joint pains have increased in the last 10 years, and infections and diseases not seen before in the mountains are also on the rise.
- India
- September 08, 2019, 09:12 IST
Despite Financial Gain, Why Sikkim is Against Centre's Plan to Open Up Khangchendzonga for Expeditions
The locals urge that the Home Ministry’s order to open up Khangchendzonga and 23 other peaks in Sikkim 'to foreigners desirous of mountaineering and trekking' should be seen from the perspective of the special bond that they share with this peak.
- India
- September 06, 2019, 16:50 IST
Queer Freedom? A Year After Section 377 Verdict, LGBT Community Still Don't Have These Rights
A report by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy found that a queer person's rights were still deficient in the domains of identity, violence, family and employment.
- India
- August 04, 2019, 10:49 IST
Story of Najafgarh: How a River Was Murdered After Flood of Flying Fishes
The Sahibi river, which was once connected to the Yamuna, has now become the 51-km Najafgarh drain that flows through nearly the entire breadth of the capital.
- India
- July 29, 2019, 09:51 IST
Canals Replaced With Roads, Waterways Buried: How Poor Planning Reduced Yamuna to a Sewer
In little over a century, the city’s population has increased from 2.3 lakh to an estimated 1.9 crore. Groundwater is disappearing at the rate of 10 centimetres and waterways and canals have been replaced with roads.
- India
- July 25, 2019, 12:53 IST
Dear Delhi, Next Time You Fly Over Barapullah Drain, Pause to Hear Cries of a Dying River
When the first drainage master plan was charted out in 1976 for the city with a population of 60 lakh, it had found 201 natural drains. By 2018-19 of these had disappeared while the rest had become sewers.
- India
- July 07, 2019, 10:51 IST
To Hell, Heaven and Back: From Delhi’s 'Madrasi Colony', a Story of the Great Sea Escape to Australia
Prabhu Dandwani, a resident of Delhi’s ‘madrasi colony’, survived a dangerous journey to Australia with his family, only to be deported back a few months later. He thanks his stars he missed on round 2, but his relatives were not so lucky.
- India
- June 20, 2019, 08:02 IST
Alarming Case of Delhi’s Disappearing Groundwater: After Chennai, Water Crisis Stares Capital in the Face
A study conducted earlier this year found that groundwater levels in New Delhi are depleting at an astonishing rate of 10 cm per year.
- India
- June 14, 2019, 09:49 IST
Carbon Emissions and Sea Surface Temperature: Why Cyclonic Storms Are on the Rise in Arabian Sea
Unlike the Bay of Bengal, storms in the Arabian Sea would not reach such high intensities because of dry air blowing in from the Arabian Peninsula.

Angana Chakrabarti

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