Bitter sweet

Who should have the first right over sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh's sugar mills - the banks who loaned the mills or the farmers who supplied …

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

Movement for worse

The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

India becomes second largest producer of cotton

IPES report highlights global hunger crisis amid high debt

World’s poorest countries saw the costs of servicing their debt increase by 35 per cent in 2022

Hailstorm drives farmers to suicide

Over 100 kill themselves as large tracts of crops are damaged; food prices likely to go up

Homeless hilsa

The ocean fish that swims against the tide to spawn in rivers is moving away from Bangladesh

Ask no questions, just pay the water bill

SDG 7: World still off-track from achieving universal energy access to all, says UN report

High inflation, debt distress, policy inactions and lagging financial flows slowing access to electricity, clean cooking in developing economies

Off to another bad start

A failed monsoon this year could mean sixth consecutive crop failure in most parts of the country. The government must immediately prepare a long-…

A fish moves west

Ten years ago Bangladesh’s rivers were deeper and hilsa plentiful. Silting, dams and pollution pushed the fisher into deep ocean leading to …

Afghanistan under Taliban: A decade’s progress eroded in a year, says UN

Cascading crises, almost 700,000 jobs vanished, finds report

Building a true green economy

The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth

Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting

Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC

The desperation of farmers

Largesse too little

Wind loses power

Tamil Nadu has 40 per cent of the wind energy capacity installed in India, yet the state is reeling from power crisis

Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides

Groundwater has failed Andhra Pradesh’s farmers. Between 1997 and 2006, about 4,500 farmers committed suicide, unable to repay loans they …

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

Stop the killing fields

Farmers are in a terrible situation, with no water for crops, livestock or drinking. If we dismiss this year as a freak weather year, we will …

Count the natural debt, too

Pharma companies determine what patients buy

Time to reform UN Security Council, Bretton Woods system outdated: Guterres

Can’t ignore vast majority of countries suffering a deep financial crisis, UN Secretary-General says at G7 meet