Setting up shop

First, the government shook scientific institutions out of their lethargy by applying the brake on funds. Now, its asking them to tie up with …

In twilight zone

Even as tribal communities' anti-Koel Karo agitation continues, there is confusion in official circles about the current status of the project

Rural credit system is not working

Moneylenders are their bane

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Strings attached

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

Turncoat 'thieves'

Former teak smugglers become official forest guards

The development laboratory

Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two

Some funds creating green portfolios, but investment routes won't change soon

Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Lost lakes

Karnataka High Court expected to uphold agreements that allowed private firms to develop lakefronts and charge entry fee

After the People met

The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the 'People's Budget'?

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Not brewing right

Tea in the Darjeeling hills is losing its flavour

CDM on small industries' agenda

Where votes meet volts

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political future would depend much on fixing the country's power crisis

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?

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

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

Tamil Nadu's tank rehab scheme does not hold water

Government approach to restoring traditional waterbodies of Tamil Nadu doesn't hold water

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

Dry clean

A Bangalore slum experiments with ecofriendly toilets