Saving the World Bank

The new Inspection Panel, whose first brief is Nepal's Arun III dam, is most certainly a radical step towards self-examination. It may cure …

Too opaque for comfort

There is a serious mismatch between global realities and the World Bank's governing structure

Not banking on much

ADB's priority is business, not helping out

Will the deserts retreat?

The first conference of parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification held in Rome took some important decisions to save the parts of the …

Soft target

The Orissa government makes a move to wrest control of some 2,000-odd non-governmental organisations operating in the state

Rite? Wrong.

Ganga plumbs new depths in its journey through Varanasi

ADB annual meet silences voices of the poor

But no one heard the poor at ADB's annual meet

Ground zero within

What was the social yield of the nuclear tests conducted by India? As the sensitive electronic devices measured the output of the blasts, Down To …

The Gates accounts

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Tehri: hanging over troubled waters

What will happen now to the Tehri dam? Even as engineers and environmentalists await the Prime Minister's verdict on the project, the proposed …

New rules for secrecy

Critics have condemned the World Bank's new information policy, as a mockery of the basic rules of informed public debate and environmental …

Sunpower is for free

A new plan to popularise solar photovoltaic products has recently been launched in India

Eco-wisdom

Two Tamil Nadu Villages protect their natural wealth and prosper

The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …

A quiet Revolution

Six years ago, the Andhra Pradesh government decided to manage forests jointly with the people. This effort is breaking new ground in Naxalite-…

Breach of trust

This is not a story about floods in Bihar. This is a story about how an entire society has been corrupted by money meant to build embankments for …

The Future is Now

In 1992, the world moved several steps towards globalisation. But little attention was paid to the sharp economic, social and cultural divides. …

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

World Bank's Pakistan flood-control plan faulty

World Bank pulled up for aid to flood control programmes in Pakistan

Evergreen Novartis

The Swiss pharma giant’s challenge to India’s patent law, now in the Supreme Court, may help define drug efficacy

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Sunshine sector loses sheen

About 40 kilometres from Delhi, in the bustling real estate market of Noida-Greater Noida, lies the biggest irony that the renewable energy …

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Whither civil society?