The true cost of water

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Manipulating research

What about privatisation, then?

Sinha's trick

Of forests and wealth

Deal won, stakes lost

Cancun deal shifts burden on developing countries not developed

Public private prank

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

Power of concentration

India has every reason to push for concentrated solar power projects. But the technology has failed to pick up because of poor planning

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

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

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

Radioactive mirage

India is aggressively shopping for nuclear fuel and technology to ramp up its energy production. What does it mean in terms of cost, technology …

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

Afforestation interrupted

Environment ministry fails to use funds for afforestation, monitor forest diversions: Comptroller and Auditor General

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Till joys

Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze -- for the first time

Give MPs money

They will bankrupt development

Policy-makers, don't run scared

Let green taxes finance your employment guarantee scheme

Federalism or local self-rule?

It's a great shame for India's democracy that we have to choose between the two