Sonia in Jhabua

Sonia Gandhi visits Jhabua and bears witness to a green revolution

Alternative technology

Alternative remedy

Travails of democracy

Democracy must widen to cover international politics and institutions

Kala azar drug to be released

Back to school

S&T + R&D = 8% GDP growth

High office and scientific understanding seem further apart today

Devolution is bankrupt

Now even the World Bank says money should flow to local bodies directly

Given up

Developing diversity

Isn't a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?

Fair trade

South figures prominently in UNCTAD meeting

300 dead, and counting

Andhra Pradesh is a watershed for agriculture in post-independent India. For the government

Human touch in credit

The growth of a women's group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice

Bihar plans policy change to push urbanisation

The state government has prepared a draft seeking changes to ‘old criteria’ for notifying semi-urban or rural area as urban 

Education, infrastructure saving grace for top districts: NITI Aayog report

Top performing districts still lag behind in development parameters like health and nutrition

Tough choices have to be made for Africa to sustainably urbanise

With Africa approaching 50 per cent urbanisation, governments have to make hard choices for scale and type of investments they need to make

China signs Shanghai Declaration to achieve health goals

Heads of all municipalities in the country vowed to achieve health goals as per the United Nations’ 2030 agenda

Africa development challenges are heavily under-researched

African leaders call for "critical interrogation" of the current challenges that the continent is facing

Zurich is world’s most sustainable city, according to a new index

100 global cities were ranked according to their performance on three parameters—people, planet and profit

How do we uncouple global development from resource use?

A new report lists several ways in which the world can maintain economic growth while reducing its primary material use 

The fruits of water

Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off

Women to the fore

The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women

A question of leadership

The issue of leadership and management of R&D institutions proves to be a stumbling block in making such bodies more productive.

From bonded labourers to green crusaders

Impoverished tribals living in the shadow of the Sahyadri hills show how degraded land can be revived by simply working unitedly

Rao wants more opportunities for young talent

Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India