Making sense of `Make in India'

Manufacturing needs to get a boost. But what to manufacture and how are two critical questions

MALAR miracle

From literacy to economic independence

The unskilled Venkataswamy

Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Narayan Hareka (Orissa)

Uttaranchal tea estates bane for farmers

No let up in human-animal conflict in Bhitarakanika National Park

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Lalit Mehta (Jharkhand)

Let states decide

Women strike back

India's first alliance of women affected by mining takes shape

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Weeds of fortune

Strings attached

Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates

How women seized NREGA

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

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 …

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Will the budget create a bang?

The 2015-16 Union budget will declare Modi government's development agenda

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand