Cabinet gives nod to new agriculture insurance scheme

The new scheme will be unable to address the existing agrarian crises, say experts

To protect or to empower?

Parliamentary standing committee reiterates its demand to bring Jarawas into mainstream

Life after hail

New poverty estimate scrapped

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology

Let states decide

Misplaced emphasis on security

The Salwa Judum judgement and the Union home ministry

Shameless India

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Ready for guillotining?

Kingfisher and Cronies

The right call?

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

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

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

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Gutkha sympathiser

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

Solar energy is everybody's business

Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it

National Clean Air Programme is a half hearted policy

India may have announced the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), but neither does it have any legal backing nor financial support, making it a …