India flash flood sparks questions on nation’s hydropower push
Srinagar, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Environmentalists have urged the Indian government to review its policy of building hydropower dams in fast-warming mountain regions, after an apparent glacier collapse this week led to flooding that swept away one dam and left at least 26 people dead. The flash flood in India’s northern Uttarakhand state a week ago, […]
Uttarakhand becomes 7th state in India to pass ‘anti-conversion law’
World Watch Monitor The northern state of Uttarakhand has become the seventh state in India to adopt a so-called “anti-conversion law”. State Governor Krishna Kant Paul signed the ‘Freedom of Religion Bill’ into law on 18th April, just over a month after the bill was approved by the state assembly and allowed to progress to the governor’s […]