India's cow crisis: The full coverage

All that you need to know about what's wrong with India's cow laws and the problems they are leading to in a five-part series

U20 leaders call on G20 to accelerate SDG goals progress

Mayors and governors of 30 major cities signed a Communiqué at the 2019 Urban 20 Mayors Summit

‘Centre using finance commission to promote its flagship programmes’

Centre is urging Finance Commission to finalise tax-devolution formula keeping in mind the national development programme

Surgical strikes for fetching jobs

Like terrorism, jobless growth continues in India irrespective of who is in power. To tackle it, we need not cross borders

The view from below

Development strategies cry out for a "bottoms-up" approach that involves the intended beneficiaries

Need for an overhaul

Scientific research and organisation must be completely re-oriented to a more balanced development of the planet.

Societies and sustainability

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: VOICES FROM RURAL ASIA (VOL 172) Edited by Paul Mc Grath Publisher Studio Driya Media & CUSO

Powering people

Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …

Browsing for criminals

Orion Systems has come up with a new software that helps you to hunt for criminals on the intranet

Fast option

Researchers are optimistic of developing a superfast switch with the help of a hopping electron

Visionary robots

Robotics covers another milestone as Israeli scientists equip robots with 3-d vision for better perception of depth

On a small scale

From micro-bugs to micro-cars, Japanese researchers are redefining the way things are manufactured

Sprucing up

...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution-free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no-waste company discipline

Wheel harrows

While advances in the transport sector have mitigated humankind's problems, the ensuing costs in terms of environmental, economic and social …

Urbane and stupid

Sitting in urban comforts and planning for a rural set-up can only spell doom for any activity on the development front, for the village is a …

After the last tree is felled

'Sustainable development' cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural …

Magnetic trap

A new method for detecting fingerprints at the scene of crime is sure to give criminals some second thoughts

Good but not true

The United Nations does not take into account sustainability of the environment in assessing progress using the Human Development Index, …

Africa awake

The new US foreign policy on environment, if well implemented, should shake African nations out of a long stupor into tackling massive eco-…

Cost of ecological balance

ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICSAN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE· Edited by Rabindra N Bhattacharya·Oxford· New Delhi·Rs 550

Stones unto stones

Rajasthan village goes beyond caste, fights for water resources

Business as usual or sustainable model: What is post-COVID-19 dilemma?

World leaders are at crossroads — and they need to take hard measures to push for a green economy 

More people in countries with low human development index suffer from climate-related disasters

Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Africa, southern & eastern Asia have highest levels of impacts from climate-related disasters  

A new child needs to be enrolled in school every 2 seconds to meet 2030 target: UNESCO

There are now 250 million children not enrolled in school, compared to 244 million in 2021