World's poor mostly reside in ecologically fragile areas

Looking at how poverty has reduced and where, it is clear that economic growth alone will not lead to poverty eradication. Global efforts must …

Saraswati underground

Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo-channels and put them to good use

जीडीपी के बहाने

भारत ने अर्थव्यवस्था के बुरे मापक पर बहस का अवसर एक बार फ…

Again, stop talking about GDP

India missed another opportunity to shed its obsession with a bad measure of economy

Did economic liberalisation push govt and civil society in to battlefield?

The opening up of India’s economy increased the number of NGOs exponentially, but then…

Indira, Manmohan, Modi: Why all see civil society with suspicion

The arrests of activists and rights campaigners is set to further dip the relationship between government and the civil society

रहिमन पानी राखिए

सूखे के निपटने के लिए 150 वर्षों के अनुभव के बाद भी भारत इस �…

How to fight water scarcity this monsoon

Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich

Ice-free Arctic may happen much sooner than predicted so far: study

While Arctic sea ice volume and extent continue to dip each year, a new study has found out that salinity in snow cover affects accuracy of …

With half a million new farm ponds, should farmers be worried about deficit monsoon?

In the last 12 years, the MGNREGA has created at least 46 new water harvesting structures in every village

गरीबी और आतंकवाद

जम्मू एवं कश्मीर में आतंकवाद की समस्या के समाधान के लिए �…

8 years and Rs 228 crore later, Maharashtra fails to make even one village sustainable

The state’s scheme, aimed at creating environmentally sustainable villages, saw only up to 6% funds being used for green projects

1.2 mn schemes meant to supply drinking water to all couldn’t do it

The latest CAG report says the country might not meet the SDG goal as well with its current schemes

Bangladesh's GM gamble

Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not understand the new technology.…

Does poverty trigger extremism?

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

उल्टी गिनती शुरू

राज्यों में इस साल और लोकसभा के अगले साल होने वाले चुनाव…

India needs 30,000 agri-markets to give fair deal to farmers

For 47 years, government has not acted on recommendation of upgrading rural markets into business hubs  

The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world

1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate of poverty reduction would …

पंचायतों पर डोरे डालने के निहितार्थ

पंचायती राज व्यवस्था अपने 25वें साल में है। विकास का महत्…

World Health Assembly: Political will needed to curb non-communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases kill 41 million people each year, low and middle-class countries account for 80 per cent of these deaths

The countdown begins

Irrespective of being left or right in orientation, the next elections will be about rural issues

Quotable Marx

An abridged selection of his memorable statements on the environment

Panchayat elections are set to become all the more important

These village-level governments have all the ingredients to make or break a political party’s fortune

Why political parties love schemes that benefit individual voters

Popular welfare schemes will be the focus of upcoming elections, but the unilateral focus to provide benefits to individual voter leads to less …

Generational spasm

To address the growing unrest across the world, we need to effectively utilise the demographic dividend