Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation

Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies  

Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis

Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Ban FDI in brownfield pharma, says Parliament standing committee

Panel raises alarm over continuing takeover of Indian generic drug firms by multinational companies

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard

Doubts persist over Green Climate Fund taking off at Doha

Workshop on climate finance gives hope, but a lot of work remains to be done

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Hydropower back in World Bank's good books

Digging shallow

CAMPA bill defeated

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

For a place in the sun

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Muted response

Hepatitis C is a growing problem in India, but government has no programme to manage the disease

South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015

Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

Good scheme in bad health

A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

Mission eclipsed

National solar mission may get derailed as banks hesitate to give loans for its high-risk projects

Experts hail doubling of cess on 'dirty' coal

Money collected from the cess gets deposited in the National Clean Energy Fund but doubts remain over its usage

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Commercial breach