Economic drift

Graphic editor Sorit Gupto questions the stark economic divide between rich and poor

‘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

Cost of ecological balance

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Healthy news

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

Simply Put: Great GDP Race

A personal memoir of planned development

India's affair with five-year plans ends

Number of jobless swelled to 197 million in 2015

Nearly 2.3 million more unemployed people will be added this year. The increase in the number of jobseekers has occurred mainly in developing …

Faulty indicators

Arunachals first HDR report

New raj wars the old

Its high time the panchayati raj institutions in India reviewed their actual role in spelling out developmental processes

Lonely woods

No place for forest keepers

Debate: Is GDP a true and accurate measurement of growth?

A new book, The Great Invention by Ehsan Masood, unveils the genesis of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how it shaped the modern economic …

A tool to aid democracy lies rusting

Chips make them rich

Princeton University scientists come up with cost-effective technology for making better silicon chips

China debunks greens

China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists' accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of …

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Mother of all crises

Earth's natural capital depleting fast, drastic changes required

A pat on our backs

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Underbelly of black gold

Book>>Crude World, Twilight of the Oil Economy by Peter Maass Random House Price Rs 800

Provocative old hat

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Back To Swadeshi

The axe and human civilisation

The use and abuse of wood is a major theme in the history of humankind according to a new book, A Forest Journey

And the World Bank president is

...Paul Wolfowitz. And you thought you couldn't be surprised