Profit from the poor
Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by
Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …
Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …
Inheritance of loss
Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor
Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS
State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain
Mining for people
New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people
Lured, used and discarded
Fifteen people hospitalised after unethical drug trial in Hyderabad
BPL's dividing line
Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line
More than half of world’s poor out of safety net coverage, says World Bank
Poverty is urbanising at a rapid pace, it says
Story from a divided land
The memoir celebrates Chhattisgarh but laments the lost opportunity for its inclusive and violence-free development
Stepsons of the Ganga
A fascinating account of the men who ply the emblematic boats of Banaras and embody its very essence
‘Short-lived climate pollutants more lethal than greenhouse gases’
Black carbon has claimed 1.15 million lives across the world