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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
MIHAN SEZ, a failure?
Only three companies and 655 employees since its inception in 2006
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
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
CAG exposes land scam in Andhra
Government largesse to private enterprises and individuals cost exchequer Rs 1,784 crore
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 …