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In new conservation recipe

Blow to anti-AIDS campaign as condom turns taboo subject

The paanwallah-doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan will show a village council member warning …

Devolution suffers setback

India's decentralisation process receives yet another blow

"No case for a multilateral framework"

Nagesh Kumar , director general of Research and Information Systems on Non-Aligned and Developing Countries, a development research organisation, …

Funds flowing

100 per cent FDI in housing

Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?

Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India's industrial policy

Government to boost scientific research

Government to re-introduce tax breaks for hotels, hospitals

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G8 push for climate funds

Demand charter from children for education, health sectors

Report>>Ensuring Universal Access To Health and Education in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Delhi 2007

Fund crunch hits Mumbai Metro

Development authority insists project on course

HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

The price of power

As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, …

A Tughlakian folly

Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable

US $650 billion of annual climate finance flowed globally in 2011-12

UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance releases first assessment report on financial flows related to climate action

जल व स्वच्छता पर 1.42 लाख करोड़ रुपए खर्च करेंगी पंचायतें

वित्त आयोग ने पंचायतों को अपने खर्च का 60 फीसदी जल व स्वच्छता पर खर्च करने का सुझाव दिया

COVID-19 stimulus: Coal auctioning move along the lines of January ordinance

The Centre had relaxed norms required for mining and sale of coal in January 2020

Shift health to concurrent list: Expert group to Finance Commission

Activists voice concern about some recommendations by panel

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Youth's demand for climate action an 'unmistakable message': UN climate chief

At the ongoing UNFCCC conference in Bonn, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa asked everyone to take part in this 'fight of …

Not a promissory note

Demonetisation casts a long shadow over the rural economy

Cabinet approves country's first IPR policy

The policy is expected to lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India

The politics of climate change: COP 21 and emerging economies

While top 10 emitters contribute 72 per cent of global greenhouse gases, the lowest 100 emitters contribute even less than 3 per cent