‘Environmental concerns are finally getting mainstreamed in India’s political discourse and the Congress party’s manifesto lists action-oriented goals to tackle them’

ICMIOD scientist Arun Shrestha presented his findings on the concluding day of the India Word Water Forum this week

There is confusion as authorities say they will pay compensation for 5,748 people still missing after the mid-June flash floods, but will not declare them dead

Salma Rehman of The Third Pole was caught up in the mayhem surrounding the flash floods and landslides that have killed nearly 1,000 people in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas

A massive rescue operation is under way to reach survivors in the flood-hit Indian state of Uttarakhand