Running the show

Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand

Class act

This is for starters

Data galore on Indian science and technology, not enough analysis says, Shobhit Mahajan

Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

Tribals become anthropologists

An academy that aims at converting tribals to anthropology; where the Bhils crossover from being mere objects of study to an active role in …

The water bearer

ANNA HAZARE bids a heavy-hearted farewell to the late Vilasrao Salunkhe, better known as 'pani baba'. Salunkhe's revolutionary concept of '…

Learning to live with noise pollution

Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Waking up to the horrors of child labour

Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions

In AID(S) of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government's health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Rat chronicles

The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash -- one of that rare breed: a rat …

Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

Reviving nature

A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty

Reining it in

Chennai shores up its laws to curb groundwater depletion, with renewed emphasis on rainwater harvesting

Defence of science

The Indian Science Congress fails to address country's key concerns like health. Instead, it ends up becoming a forum for grousing about …

Turmoil in academia

Tenure of Medical Council of India’s governing body set to expire; Centre unclear about next move

Prosperity and Beyond

A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces …

Flight into danger

While cranes are regularly hunted in parts of Pakistan, villagers in Rajasthan are doing their best to protect these endangered species

Water beneath our homes

Truth or dare

By publicly disclosing the environmental status report and commissioning an ngo for its preparation, Pune Municipal Corporation has grabbed …

A tab on wishlist

As firms explore applications for Indian consumers, the country is set to drive budget tablet market

Umbilical Discord

An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …