It's a National Park that grabbed world headlines. With the mass wipe out of all its tigers Sariska became a blot in in the history of conservation in India. And two years later the King of the Jungle is back.. In June 2008 the Indian Air Force airlifted two tigers from Ranthambore National Park to be translocated to Sariska. And since then quietly yet determinedly a virtual army of foot soldiers and wildlife scientists are tracking two radio-collared tigers to make sure this time round nothing goes wrong. So far no one has been allowed inside this heavily barricaded park. Operation Big Cat is in full swing. Three hundred men patrol the park- every visitor into the park is frisked and the area where the tigers have been released is cordoned off to make sure the tigers are adjusted to their new home. As the only media team allowed inside to track the tigers on foot - we are able to get witness...

Even the most ardent proponents of industrialism would acknowledge that we are in the midst of an environment crisis. Rates of species extinction are 1000 times more than what they were before human beings dominated the earth. The rate of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is 30 times more than when the Industrial revolution started. Urban India is slowly waking up to this inconvenient truth. The Outlook-CNN-IBN-CSDS "State of Environment in Indian Cities" is an attempt to gauge precisely this- assess the level of awareness, attitudes, perception and concerns of the people about the state of environment in their country The survey- has thrown up some startling results. Indians consider environment to be the Number Two problem beating unemployment, law and order and even corruption. In a similar survey conducted in the UK the British considered environment as Number Five on their list of social problems, which the government should tackle. Indians in the first ever environment poll are clearly...

Is there any connection between saving the tiger and using less electricity? I didn't think so till I visited the land of the dammed! The North East is slated to be the powerhouse of the country. Over 200 mega and medium sized dams are to be built after cutting millions of trees and thousands of acres of forests. The irony only 12 per cent of the power generated from the dams is to be used locally the rest by big cities like Mumbai and Delhi. And I am keen to know how do the people of the North East feel about this. A flight from Delhi to Dibrugarh and then a ferry ride crossing the might Brahmputra into Arunachal Pradesh and I already feel like I have entered a different world. In Roeing town in Dibang valley there seem to be no people on the streets. I walk into a huge hall, which is where everyone is gathered. Its drizzling and I am a...

There's a mysterious disease stalking the gharial (the Indian crocodile). Even as I write this, dead bodies of the gharial are being dragged out from the river Chambal. Females, males and sub-adults - the death toll continues to rise day after day. It's a mass slaughter and it's not due to poaching - it's an epidemic, which has already wiped out a massive chunk of the gharial population. Almost a hundred gharials have died at the National Chambal wildlife sanctuary alone, the only one in the country that extends into three states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The MP government has been swift to react. But Rajasthan still refuses to acknowledge the problem (even though the Environment Minister at the Centre is from Rajasthan). The UP government, too, is foxed. But other than sending the dead bodies for a routine post-mortem, everyone is clueless. Renowned wildlife filmmakers Naresh and Rajesh Bedi, who have been filming gharials for the last decade, could...