Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

Catchment Area Treatment Plan funds badly spent in Himachal

US bank uses carbon smokescreen

EXIM Bank nearly denied funds to Reliance’s coal-fired plant

Problems continue for Bangalore-Mysore expressway

Financing emissions from jets and cows

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …

Revamping US healthcare

US politicians and insurance companies claim to offer the best healthcare services in the world. Recently, however, top US experts have admitted …

International meet on Avian flu agree on a roadmap

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …

Dirty advance

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

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

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

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