Setback to health insurance

Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme

Farmers in Telangana protest cap on farm loan waiver

State government proposed to limit loan waiver to last agriculture season

Waste-to-energy plants to get a boost, says Chidambaram

Scheme to encourage cities, municipalities to set up such projects to get encouragement

Private desires, public fears

Asian Development Bank’s new plan insists on the private sector answer to water woes

No tax cuts for pesticide industry in 2007 budget

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Will Indian generosity help Africa?

Business bites

A little green thought

Kingfisher and Cronies

Power to the people

Heads of panchayats arrived in the Capital to demand the power to effectively run the traditional self-government

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

Green Climate Fund urges countries to convert pledges into contributions

Sweden has provided the largest contribution per capita to the Fund so far

Rs 1,400 crore for setting up water purification plants

Ministry of drinking water and sanitation gets Rs 15,260 crore

Energy transition is now a must

Marie-Hélène Aubert, adviser to the French president for international negotiations on climate and environment, was recently in New …

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Karnataka legislature amends state Panchayati Raj Act

Wavering

India's new solar system

New priorities

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

Sethusamundram project is unviable

Two for tangle

Development takes backseat in Northeast as two Central agencies try to outcompete each other

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments