Forest dwellers denied rights

Government considering amending Forest Rights Act

GM and the superhero

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

Only plans, no integration

Who is watching GM crops?

As India gets ready to unleash a vast number of genetically modified (GM) food crops, politicians have joined activists in opposing engineered …

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Rights without benefits

Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, …

Eye on the storm

Cyclone Phailin has not taken many lives but has left behind a trail of destruction that severely cripples people’s livelihood. What did it …

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Solar energy is everybody's business

Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it

Kind to Cash

A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.    

Kind to cash

The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …