With an eye on investment India has signed a record 82 bilateral investment treaties. Now global investors are seeking damages from India under these agreements, even questioning the country’s regulations

Demand for vegetables brings cheer to small farmers but the government is still not looking beyond Green Revolution

What explains Vitamin D deficiency among Indians despite availability of ample sunshine

After purifying the souls of 100 million pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh, the Ganga will return to its usual way, polluted, sluggish and neglected. Indian cities have no plan to stop dumping their effluents and sewage into rivers

Countries quietly step up Internet surveillance while global telecom meet debates freedom of expression

Connecting every village to the grid is a tall order. The answer to the country’s energy poverty could lie in decentralised solar

More than 25 years ago, India passed an Act to commercially use its 14,000 kilometres of waterways to ferry people and goods. But over the years, the sector has not gained prominence

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in the world's 'natural capital'. All hopes were pinned on CoP 11 in Hyderabad

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by topography and demography has now turned gram panchayats against municipalities and urban bodies against the state government

The sunshine industry, literally and figuratively, has been allowed to fade away. There are loopholes in the existing policies. While foreign manufacturers dump their products at dirt cheap prices in the country, domestic manufacturers are finding it hard to compete

The outcome of the Rio Earth Summit was a document that left most countries dissatisfied