Salvage science

Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister seeks more funds and education reforms in science sector

Job half done

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

Budget 2013: the path remains the same

Bihar hopes Union Budget will set right Finance Commission’s ‘wrong’

Finance Commission recommended curtailing funds under Backward Region Grant Fund

Emergence of South

2013 human development report applauds efforts of developing nations. Is India on track?

News 360° - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

Why one of three African candidates fits the bill as the new head of the WTO

Africa represents a key bloc within the WTO and accounts for nearly 27 per cent of membership and 35 per cent of members from developing countries

Centre’s decision on schemes reflects its conservative approach to economic revival

It will also impact the vulnerable who are already bearing the brunt of COVID-19 and the countrywide lockdown, they said

Eco-cabs join Chandigarh's public transport service

Plans afoot to increase demand for cycle rickshaws, reduce use of motor vehicles

Letters

Raise tax on diesel cars

Proliferating diesel cars are a public health risk and drain the exchequer

WORLD BANK'S WOES

Brief

WHO's problem

As most developed countries shy away from increasing their contribution, a cash-strapped World Health Organization is forced to rely on private …

Is India ready?

Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer

Risks yours, profits mine

Radioactive mirage

Radioactive Mirage

Heading towards a cliff

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

Crores to gamble

National fund for research in clean energy ill-utilised

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Super Market

Secretive. Exploitative. Is the market in Minor Forest Produce unmanageable? sopan joshi finds out