Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Trouble in store

India gets ready with national plan on climate change

Farmer harmer

Shell says it didn’t lie to court about oil spill in Niger Delta

Sells off more of its Nigerian operations

Trial or error?

The Indian government grants permission for trials of transgenic cotton

The Bharat Nirman outpour

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

Energy draft policy report has several loopholes

Tamil Nadu's tank rehab scheme does not hold water

Government approach to restoring traditional waterbodies of Tamil Nadu doesn't hold water

Ministers fail to reach consensus on R&R policy

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

Wavering

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

The right call?

Norms to curb mobile radiation do little to assuage people’s fear

Black city

Darkness and pollution enveloped Delhi on the second day of the new year

Skewed solutions

The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain

2005: after non-governance

Salt of the earth

Bombay HC stays Centre's notification on iodised salt

Landless poor march to Delhi. Then what?

Update

Tamil Nadu and Kerala slug it out over Mullaperiyar dam

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

Fine the rulers

Forest eviction issue gets thornier