New draft rules for RTI draws flak

Activists say the rules undermine the spirit of the law

Focus shifts to man-made fibre

Farmers sidelined in draft national fibre policy

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Ready for guillotining?

Bitter feud

New mineral policy pushes privatization at people's cost

Proposal to airlift Bhopal waste to Germany in jeopardy

GIZ says its reputation at stake after details of proposal were leaked in German media

Kingfisher and Cronies

Trouble in store

India gets ready with national plan on climate change

Farmer harmer

Water may shift from State to Concurrent List

Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June

Wavering

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

Look who's invested in ITC

Insurance companies, Indian government are the mainstay of the tobacco-driven company

The right call?

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

Move to leash NGOs

Government and political parties see NGOs with suspicion. Arm-twisting has already begun

‘Energy conservation is a moving target’

A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001. Most provisions of the law are yet to be implemented properly. Ajay …

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

To industry's tune

Off to another bad start

A failed monsoon this year could mean sixth consecutive crop failure in most parts of the country. The government must immediately prepare a long-…

RTI assessment

Rise of third sector

NGOs’ relationship with the government has been redefined over the years with changing social and political scenario

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