India's Cow Crisis Part 1: Nepal bears the brunt of India's cow vigilantism

Hounded by cow vigilantes and trade restrictions, farmers in Uttar Pradesh's border areas abandon their unproductive cattle in Nepalese villages …

UP village demanding compensation for riverine erosion stops fast

The residents of Kamhariya in Sitapur district had been on a 48-hour hunger strike, demanding measures against erosion by the Sharda river. They …

गाय संकट-1: गुपचुप तरीके से नेपाल भेजे जा रहे हैं मवेशी

गोरक्षा और व्यापार पर प्रतिबंध के कारण उत्तर प्रदेश की सीमा पर रहने वाले किसान अपने आवारा पशुओं को नेपाल के गांवों में पहुंचा ...

Yogi's gift to Uttar Pradesh farmers: loan waiver, higher MSP, guaranteed procurement

The decision comes as a huge relief for about 20 million small and marginal farmers

Darkness before light

Down To Earth visited Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh and found that despite electrification, households continue to depend on kerosene and …

पशु व्यापार पर प्रतिबंध से विकराल हो रही है आवारा मवेशियों की समस्या

आवारा मवेशियों की संख्या इस हद तक बढ़ गई है कि फसलों को बचाने के लिए ग्रामीणों को रातभर जागना पड़ रहा है

Islamic banking with a twist

A cooperative in Bihar offers interest-free loans, but only to its poor members

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-1: 156 लोस सीटों पर ऐसे किया जाता है कब्जा!

चीनी उद्योग और सरकारों के बीच भ्रष्ट गठजोड़ है। देश की 156 लोकसभा सीटें गन्ने की राजनीति से जुड़ी हैं। अधिकांश नेताओं के अधीन ...

“Cooperative is not for profit but for benefit”

Arshad Ajmal, mentor and the first chairperson of Al-khair Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, is now working on replicating the model in different …

Political parties choose farm loan waiver for electoral gains, but at what cost?

Farmers have outstanding loan of Rs12.60 lakh crore, which translates to Rs 100,000 per cultivator

Left without a vote

Uttar Pradesh government's repeated attempts to bring villages under industrial authorities are against the spirit of the Constitution

How is fodder crisis rendering livestock vulnerable?

Today, India faces an acute fodder shortage that has left drought-hit farmers and livestock vulnerable. Jitendra finds out how fodder crisis has …

Water-stressed in India: How bunds helped farmers in Mahoba put drought behind

Construction of bunds helped revive groundwater levels and recharged wells in drought-stricken Bundelkhand district  

SC directs Gujarat, Rajasthan to decentralise food procurement under ICDS

Tells states to keep big contractors out of nutrition programme for children, and pregnant and lactating women

Meat Matters

Why slaughterhouses have to be "illegal" to be sustainable and why farmers have to give up their cattle for survival

44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit

Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected

Bitter sweet

Who should have the first right over sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh's sugar mills - the banks who loaned the mills or the farmers who supplied …

Rivulet resurrected in 45 days

Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh

Penny unwise, pond foolish

The government should have revived traditional water bodies and ponds to prepare Bundelkhand for drought. Rather, it spent Rs 15,000 crore to …

CAG slams Uttar Pradesh for poor implementation of MGNREGS

14.5 per cent decline in employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, says country’s chief auditor

Will access to toilets guarantee women's security in rural India?

The Badaun rape incident shows how vulnerable women are to sexual violence when there are no toilets in homes

Elementary failure

Since the Right To Education Act came into force on April 1, 2010, India has been witnessing an experiment that involves parents in enforcing a …