No cap on iron mining in Odisha

Centre rejects Shah Commission recommendation, says it would upset industry

Economy of slippage

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Power Point

Experts have given conflicting reports on the Tehri dam

Deluge

Are all environment lovers environmentalists?

Bureaucracy restricts potential of Orissa's pani panchayats

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

A public eyewash

The inspection and maintenance programme is nothing more than testing tailpipes of vehicles in India. The government should stop wasting …

Accountable automatically

Emission warranty and recall system have compelled the automobile manufacturers in the US and Sweden to take serious anti-pollution measures

Weed them out

The challenge is how to isolate "gross polluters" from the vehicle fleet and send them back to the manufacturers

Bridging the gap

Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has …

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

From protests to where in 2012?

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Making hell-holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

Mine-boggling

Officials in Orissa allowed leases to lapse so that companies could mine on the sly

Fighting for a cause

K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. …

Dinosaur age ministers

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

Meta Outstripped

The pace of construction at a controversial copper plant in Goa has not slackened despite protests from the people and the church

Impotent plan?

In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). The latest avatar of state-financed employment …

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government