Religious leaders pledge to alleviate poverty

They also declared they would do all they could to support the new SDGs, aimed at lifting millions of people out of poverty and creating a …

More miles to go for Chipko women

The Chipko movement halted commercial tree felling in UP's Chamoli district, but the women who led it are still fighting corrupt and indifferent …

Regaining a paradise

Involvement of locals in the management of natural resources has earned remarkable dividends for the Doon valley

Repeat and step it up

'Privatisation has increased rural neglect'

The northeast has been badly affected by ethnic strife. DILIP GOGOI of Cotton College, Guwahati, on its vulnerabilit

Self-help

Democracy "of the people, by the people and for the people". Madhya Pradesh takes the lead

Recession is elsewhere

Sustainable Development Goals are not confined to poor countries

Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, SDGs will not be confined to poor countries  

The house that Digvijay built

Governments and the masses have very rarely worked together successfully in modern India. In Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Digvijay Singh has …

Trajectory of opinion

The social media is the winner as well as the biggest polariser of development news

Modi back to ‘vikaas’ hardline

Prime Minister seems to have gone back on promises to farmers

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Department in the dock

US Congress cuts aid

Ambitious reform plan

Fussing about funds

Restricted access

Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?

India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.

An Indian idea gets the world on its feet

Suddenly padyatras are being used as a new form of social mobilisation, all over the world

The miracle of the hills and the humans

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