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 …

Sick berth

The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims

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

Claiming water

The fundamental right to water intends to alleviate suffering. It fails miserably to meet its intention. Feel the lives of those who suffer and …

Where are the panchayats?

Of the three farm water conservation programmes currently under way in Karnataka, the Jal Samvardhene Yojana (jsy) has completed a year of …

Is a 24-hour water supply possible?

An answer to this question was attempted at a workshop organised in Hyderabad, from September 23-24, 2003, by the Administrative Staff College of …

Home makers

Women of Latur exemplify how people alone can put an end to their misery

NaMo budget on transport and pollution: Green expectations - Dashed hopes

NDAÔÇÖs maiden budget upholds and supports UPAII blunders to protect the automobile industry while ignoring the perils of …

Let states decide

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