News 360° - Briefs

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

Ministry indifferent to illegal mining

Shows cold response to recommendations on curbing illegal mining of iron, manganese

Indian scientists: missing in action

Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project

Builders exploit civic administration's plan, make fortunes

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Think differently, Mr Finance Minister

Think institution

The need of the hour is to decentralise drought management and think long-term

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

Going off-grid to power solution

PDS protests in West Bengal

Lessons in dealing with floods

The god of ecological things

News - In Short

Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot

Delhi government

Utterly confused. Speaks for polluters who have business interests in scuttling CNG

Ministry of Environment and Forests

Has a lot of power to safeguard public health. Prefers not to use it

Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas

Blames others for its failures. Is raring to destroy the CNG market by hiking prices

Time a resource curse got lifted

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

What it takes to deliver midday meal

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

Foul play in Katrina, Rita relief operations

What China is doing to Goa

Muddy Water