Into the abyss?

The situation of India's farmers has only become grimmer in the past decade, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office report

Project without a plan

After two budgets and Rs 5,300 crore in funding, the Centre's micro irrigation project that promises water to every farmland is not even close to …

No Go

The South managed to make its presence felt, but this was due to the US-Europe rift

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Remembering Kalinganagar - Will cheap and dirty industrialization work?

Logjam

Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work …

Theirs to mine?

This is the question angry and beleaguered tribals in Orissa and Jharkhand are asking, as mining companies set up shop in the midst of their land …

Made it

Enabavi, a village of 52 families, is abuzz. It is hosting farmers from the nearby Kallem village who have come here for tips on profitable …

From tailors to paani poori sellers: MGNREGA lends a hand to migrant returnees

DTE visited village Dhamna in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district to see how life in rural India is being sustained by the biggest …

Can MGNREGA be a tool for post-COVID-19 rural recovery

Agriculture is the least-affected sector of the economy. It is poised to gain and lead economy’s revival process

Gram sewaks protest NREGS pressure

Nine gram sewaks have committed suicide in past one year due to work stress

Jairam Ramesh proposes making rural job scheme less labour-intensive

Revised MGNREGS guidelines to be finalised end of this week

Public hearing for Posco project in Orissa inconclusive

A fine balance

The business of ecotourism is set to boom worldwide. Who will gain and who will lose?

Rudderless

Ecotourism is the new buzzword in the Indian government

The enterprise

Keeping both the environment and economy afloat

Congress socialist party?

Left-of-centre agenda must not be abandoned

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Everybody's a Loser

The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a …

Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader

Headloaders - collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of …

A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. …

Dying for ration: Denied full benefits, 62-year-old widow eats a meal a day to survive

Around 80 households out of 250 denied PDS welfare in Baramsar

The god of ecological things