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Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human …

Cabinet committee approves shale gas exploration

Will the government look into the environmental problems associated with hydraulic fracking to obtain gas?

Do we really need the bauxite from Niyamgiri?

Existing mines can meet India’s demand for the next thirty years, at levels three times our current consumption

Land acquired for SEZs in Maharashtra to be turned into industrial hubs

New industrial policy follows denotification of SEZ land after promoters backed out of 16 deals

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages

El Nino to cause global losses worth $84 trillion by 2099, India may be more vulnerable than estimated

Impacts of El Nino will be more pronounced in poor countries in the tropics like India

COVID-19: Global trade to decline 27% in Q2, warns UNCTAD

Global trade value slumped 3% in first quarter of 2020, according to the report

COVID-19: $2.5 tln needed by developing countries to weather economic crisis, says report

Debts of $1 trillion owed by developing countries needs to be cancelled

MIHAN SEZ, a failure?

Only three companies and 655 employees since its inception in 2006

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation

South Asia

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Bihar’s development model fails to save Nitish

Bihar, touted as India’s fastest growing state under Nitish Kumar rule, has thrown up a startling mandate and shown faith in BJP. The Bihar …

Impotent plan?

In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). The latest avatar of state-financed employment …

Government hikes minimum support price of paddy by 16 per cent

It’s a rough deal, say farmers

20 years to…where?

Sinha's trick

Testimonies from Nandigram

ABCDE of Obama’s sales pitch

Increasing population, demand for food in Africa need urgent attention: Experts

Policies, mega plans by governments needed as 2023 priorities for action for food systems

‘Repressive governments use financial crises, global pandemics to change societal norms’

Sam Szoke-Burke, senior legal researcher, Columbia University, talks to DTE amid reports of governments trying to take control of land in name of …

COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity

Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …