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Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes

Nagpur has 200 bird species, reveals bird-spotting exercise

60 to 65 of the species were found in MIHAN-SEZ area earmarked for industrial development

UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries

Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015

‘Policies will infuse objectivity in health research’

Several health and research policies in the country are either in draft stage or just recommendatory in nature. This hampers regulation of …

Who are the poor?

Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court

Who are the poor?

Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality

Maharashtra elections: Welfare dominates tribal mandate

Vote likely to be split between the Congress, NCP and BJP

ASHAs not enough to deliver healthcare to urban poor: study

'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare services to meet their needs'

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

Inclusive budget for inclusive growth

Budgets should not just talk about GDP and sops. It should ensure that basic rights and necessities of people are met in an effective manner

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

Is Bt cotton a success or failure?

Participants attending conference to review Bt cotton call for extensive investigation into all aspects of cotton production before drawing …

A schoolgirl’s nuclear nightmare

Varshini, 10, speaks for a new generation that is against nuclear energy

Crowdsourcing technology could ensure safety of drinking water in rural India

Research group develops a simple test kit that combines science and mobile phones

UGC guidelines on phasing out animal dissection spark controversy

Is virtual dissection an effective learning tool? 

Falling silicon prices shakes up solar manufacturing industry

What will prevail? Crystalline PV or thin-film

In court

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For whom the school bells toll?

India's education policy has only sought to alienate the students and also deepen the urban-rural divide

Straight from the puppet's mouth

Why should it matter if messages are effectively conveyed through tales, songs and plays rather than from the mouths of scientists bogged down in …

To be healthy, wealthy and wise

...activists must fight for better prevention and health education