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Weeding out corruption

The Save Dal Lake project is embroiled in a multi-crore scam

Just hot air

NEPAD falls short on deliverables though it is heavy on promises

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

Just 40 hours

Can make you literate

Junk CAS

What civil society groups want the World Bank to do

What's the motive?

Toon book on problems faced by tribals

No more funds to Bihar legislators

Corruption provokes Nitish Kumar to scrap development fund

There’s hope, if we wake up to today’s evolutionary potential

Everyone needs to be fired up with a rage aligned with the feminine principle of care rather than the masculine principle of control

Tapping unused government land

There is a need to assess land acquisition and allotment for infrastructure projects, to eliminate the possibility of creating surplus and …

India's budget just declared

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares major schemes in his post-demonetisation message on new year's eve

Mid-day meal has failed to attract children to government schools, says CAG audit

The latest report says that in most of the states children are not getting the prescribed level of nutrition through the food supplied under the …

Blame it on the foreign hand

Centre's motive behind the unseen "foreign hand" theory is to polarise the development discourse

Tissue culture in a pressure cooker

A new tissue culture technique that is claimed to be cheap and easy to understand is fast gaining popularity.

An obituary for "development"

The Development Dictionary -- A Guide to Knowledge as Power Edited by Wolfgang Sachs Publisher: Zed Books, London and New Jersey Price: Not stated

Villegers blueprint their own development

MYRADA moves a step forward in rural appraisal programmes, emphasising the necessity of involving villagers in their own development.

Do Indian scientists get what they deserve?

Leading scientists state unequivocally that favouritism and not talent attracts grants and promotions in Indian research institute.

Technology policy draft is irritant to many

The department of science and technology has initiated public debate on ways to stimulate the country's stagnating research and development activity.

Making business sense out of eco-friendly practices

Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment Stephen Schmidheiny Publisher: MIT Press, Massachusetts Price:…

Tall promises

The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers

Giga-hit or mega-flop?

Will the fastest supercomputer developed by India help the country realise its potential? Or will it flop?

Empowering communities

FROM INDIFFERENCE TO ACTIVE PARTICIPATION·Frances Sinha & Sanjay Sinha·EDA Rural Systems