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

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

Public hearing for Posco project in Orissa inconclusive

Congress socialist party?

Left-of-centre agenda must not be abandoned

Paying farmers for ecological services

The god of ecological things

From where our food will come

2022 too short, too far: How did the economy fare last year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Climate change affecting jobs in South Asia

Training in green skills must for youth: report

How green is the budget?

Bihar has little money to pay workers under MGNREGS

Blames Centre for non-release of funds

UPA announces poll sop for tribals

Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

Bihar women ‘marry’ minor boys to get houses

Use loopholes in implementation of government housing scheme; police at a loss

Global Hunger Index: Why is India trailing?

India ranked 94 in global hunger index 2020 among 107 countries 

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

The laboratory of development

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Socio Economic and Caste Census could leave rightful claimants out of BPL list

Activists point out several drawbacks in the inclusion and deprivation criteria

Why waste a chance?

Make India drought-proof

Military, militants clash in Nigeria