Senior Correspondent, Chandigarh & Northern Plains Desk
Covers water federalism, agrarian policy, ecological jurisprudence, and cross-border river treaties across North and Western India. Previously reported on interstate legal disputes from the Supreme Court and Punjab & Haryana High Court benches. Recipient of the 2024 Ramnath Goenka Memorial Citation for Investigative Environmental Journalism.
Water Resources Ministry moves draft legislation to supersede legacy dispute tribunals with a permanent sensor-monitored allocation council amidst persistent delta flooding and seasonal storage deficits.
Expert Appraisal Committee mandates real-time wildlife acoustic sensors and elevated subterranean viaducts across contiguous ecological sensitivity zones in the Konkan corridor.
A three-week bureau audit across Majuli and Dibrugarh reveals substandard polymer embankment contracts, leading to chronic riverbank collapse during unseasonal monsoon surges.
Agronomists in Ludhiana report marginal adoption gains for DSR paddy as free electricity tariffs discourage conservation in districts with critically depleted deep aquifers.
Constitutional scholars weigh the implications of recent High Court adjudications on disqualification petitions filed against split legislative blocs in Northern assemblies.
A rare non-partisan consensus in the Lok Sabha paves the way for binding single-tribunal adjudications with strict 24-month statutory resolution timelines.