US continues to target India over its intellectual property regime, especially in pharma, green tech sectors
Nothing to bank on
Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Rooftop hurdles
Elderly & lonely
India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. ...
Forest fires getting more frequent. Is climate change the reason?
India as well as other countries are busy fighting forest fires
Flat in 20 days
Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in ...
Last mile chaos
New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws
Keeping Internet global and free
With the US pulling out of the control of the Internet, the world is debating a multi-stakeholder model of ...
Delivering safety
All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts ...
Ashish Bose: a man who counted
India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam ...
People’s manifesto
Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto
Bangladesh's GM gamble
Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not ...
Desperately seeking skills & jobs
India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people ...
Obituary: Ashish Bose, a man who counted
Moily bats for GM trials
After he revives regulatory body for GM crops, industry demands removal of state clearances
Lessons from two cities
Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target ...
Water stress
With about 4 per cent of the water resources of the world, India should have been a water-adequate nation. ...
Not so young at heart
Young hearts are more stressed out than they used to be. They bear much more pressure these days just ...
Beachside troubles
Ministry of Mines and Atomic Minerals Directorate move to curb illegal mining and export of beach sand minerals
The road ahead
Jute, coir and waste material are set to make rural roads economic and eco-friendly
Yours unilaterally
Nepal suffers as India builds dykes along a trans-border river without informing the neighbour
Jumbo conflict
Human-elephant conflict is rising across India. Every year nearly 400 people are killed by elephants and about 100 elephants ...
Young and jobless
Across the globe, unemployment is growing three times faster among youngsters than among those above 24 years of age
Call of the wild
Wild foods are a way of life for many tribal communities. Sadly, they are being muscled out by cereals ...