New land acquisition bill will aggravate farmers' distress: legal experts
Jharkhand to share mining profit
State to give 80 per cent of sand mine auction profit to panchayats
Land bill gets diluted on way to Parliament
Bill provisions now favour government and industry, not farmers, say activists
Now farmland reservation
Rural development ministry suggests land reservation for agriculture
Reveal or go to jail
New Collection of Statistics Act comes into force. Makes furnishing information mandatory
Mining halted
Licence issued without consent of Visakhapatnam residents
Property is a right: SC
Analysis of judgement shows State retains supremacy
Water may shift from State to Concurrent List
Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June
Include public, fight Naxalites
Planning Commission wants to improve Integrated Action Plan
India now has 1,706 tigers
At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census
BPL's dividing line
Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line
‘States that use less must get less’
Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional
Streamlining autonomy
Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states
Secret dam
People were not consulted, officials say they don’t know about it
Drought hit
Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year
Smoke in the kitchen
The new ‘green’ biomass cookstove has immense potential but why is it missing in homes?
No more funds to Bihar legislators
Corruption provokes Nitish Kumar to scrap development fund
Reserved for no one
Many reserved seats remained uncontested in first-ever panchayat elections in Jharkhand
Great depression of lac
Biggest producer Jharkhand worst hit—and clueless
Strings attached
Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates
Spoils of local bodies
Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf
Panchayati bonanza
13th Finance Commission puts money in the hands of local governments
Vote in panchayat polls or else...
Gujarat brings back draconian bill
Warning from Leh
Leh cloudburst is unusual, say scientists. Such extreme events are rising. What’s wrong?