Road to nowhere

Anti-haven road

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

A road set free

Latur gains from anti-encroachment drive on farm roads. State takes its cue

Highways of death

High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones

Moving mountains

Elusive bride price

ALOK GUPTA visits a Bihar village where people are building a road to get wives

One man, 22 years, a road

Fed up of state’s highway fixation, villagers connect themselves to the world

Bicycles pave the way

Automobiles were not the harbingers of good roads—at least not in USA

Central India in grip of worst-ever drought

The road ahead

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

Janadesh 2007: Satyagraha for self-reliance, dignity

Controversy over J&K government's plan to revive Mughal road

500,000 billion litres

Roadside rainwater harvesting potential in India remains untapped

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Tadoba tiger reserve An unsafe haven

Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

Trespassers allowed

Unregulated tourism around the Corbett Tiger Reserve has restricted animal movement  

Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

On two legs and a prayer

Walkers outnumber people using vehicles in every Indian city. But city plans have no space for pedestrians, nor do urban roads. Will town …

Desperate for Expressway

Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind eye to environmental concerns and …

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Time for an overhaul

Having served the country for more than a century and a half, the Indian Railways has taken apathy in its stride. Politicians’ whims, and …

Between Maoists and mines

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera

A million opportunities lost

The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …