The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Climate change conference- World leaders fail to act again

The 12th Conference of Parties to the UN climate convention saw the setting up of an adaptation fund to help poor countries. Ritu Gupta …

Long yarn

The cotton story is a tangled tale. In many parts of India, farmers are committing suicide. It's been a while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and now …

Sun block

Financial woes, delay in raw material supply stall most of the concentrated solar power projects

Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'

Non-profit diseases

There is a logic to the idea of neglected diseases. Historically the diseases poor people get--largely in the poorer parts of the world--haven't …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

Sunshine sector loses sheen

About 40 kilometres from Delhi, in the bustling real estate market of Noida-Greater Noida, lies the biggest irony that the renewable energy …

Future compromised

The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

Kudankulam meltdown

The spectre of Fukushima continues to haunt the world, forcing governments in most parts of the globe to rethink their plans to tap this …

The panchayat outrage

It was a vote for self-governance, not self-determination. No panchayat election in the country ever created as much hype as that of Jammu and …

Chidambaram's success

Who cares for India today

Millionaire mukhiyas

Money pumped in development schemes in Bihar is giving rise to a new breed of village heads, flush with money and flexing muscles

Dam of defiance

The Chikkapaclasolagi barrage, on the River Krishna in Karnataka, is said to be the country's first "people's dam". But having built …

A great panic

Overextended banks crashing, leading to recession. 1873 revisited

A little green thought

The World After

Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Stupid growth

The newer deal for a newer world

For a place in the sun

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