End of the road for Bangalore?

Grain of truth

India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared …

Geopolitics

By another name?

More like a ritual

So much for scope and research scale

One hot day in June

India woke up to a phone call

"The ice"

That's what Antarctica is called

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

COVID-19 lockdown shows why India needs social rental housing

Poor, low-income population needs rents below market rates

Farm loan waiver given to ineligible people: CAG

Serious lapses and errors in over 20 per cent cases test-checked; many deserving farmers left out

Counting the cost

Is Span motel's punishment commensurate with its crime? Experts wonder...

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

News 360° - Briefs

Public private prank

Cities are good

Angel argues slowing down urbanisation will hurt the poor the most

Centre fund for rural development mismanaged

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

News 360-Brief

On wrong wavelength

Twenty years after the Supreme Court asserted that people have a right over radio waves, community radio continues to struggle. Instead of …

Revival plan for whom?

Karnataka's ambitious plan to restore the ecology of illegal mining-hit Ballari has no representation from affected communities and environmentalists

The cold rush

What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus

Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder

The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights 

Climate deal signed in Paris is weak and unambitious: CSE

The phrase ‘historical responsibility’ has been erased from the Agreement. This weakens the obligations of developed countries, says …

UN climate talks: Money for Green Climate Fund to be raised from market

Finance agency goes ahead with decision in spite of demand from developing nations to keep private investments out

No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report

Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade

World bodies to push for bringing Africa into carbon trade net

African Carbon Forum meet an opportunity to review progress on climate change mitigation in the continent'