No punitive action to control population, India commits in Nairobi

Global commitment comes at a time when demand for punitive actions have grown back home

UN human rights unit faces financial crisis as 149 countries don’t pay dues

This has made six of the UN’s 10 treaty bodies cancel their sessions this year

Road Accidents in India: No way for pedestrians, cyclists

On World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, let’s take a look at how road accidents decreased but more people died in them

Supreme Court upholds the constitutional validity of Aadhaar

Aadhaar will no longer be required to be given to banks, cellphone firms, schools or offices but would be required for filing I-T returns

COVID-19 lockdown highlights India’s great digital divide

Despite the rise in wireless users in recent years, urban and rural India are miles apart in their online presence

Lack of funding for top health research body

The Indian Council of Medical Research has only half the funds it needs

COVID-19 lockdown will damage more than demonetisation: Pronab Sen

DTE talks to Pronab Sen, head of the Centre's Standing Committee on Economic Statistics, to make sense of the lockdown  

NPPA puts price cap on cardiac stents; says hospitals overcharge

The average cost of drug eluting stent for domestic companies is around Rs 8,000 but it is sold to patients for Rs 24,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh

Cast away

After being at the receiving end of both militants and the state government, Kashmir's village heads are now threatening to boycott next year's …

Almost all states in red zone on gender equality: NITI Aayog

Latest report by think tank says that women and girls in the country experience inequalities in every aspect of life

Cabinet approves National Population Register update

The exercise will be held in 2020 from April to September, along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021

Land grab forcing Madhya Pradesh tribals to migrate

The struggle for land recognition is still on with tribals denied rights to own and cultivate even ancestral lands

CAG assesses performance of ministries

The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India had submitted 16 performance reports on various sectors to the Finance Ministry and they were tabled …

Will Modi keep his power promise?

The NDA government is more than 2,000 days behind schedule for providing electricity to all households in India

How Aadhaar evolved into an invisible tool to monitor almost all our transactions

Sold as a concept to plug leakages in welfare schemes, Aadhaar is now creating more problems than what it had set out to resolve

आजादी का संघर्ष

 एक तरफ गांव स्वशासन की घोषणा करते जा रहे हैं, दूसरी तरफ सरकार इसे गैरकानूनी और सख्ती से कुचलने की बात कह रही है।

Victims of rehabilitation

To swindle money from the Narmada dam rehabilitation scheme, lands of thousands of tribal families have been given to the dam-displaced people …

Vyapam virus

The scam in Madhya Pradesh exposes the criminal nexus which has infected India's medical education system

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

Economic Survey 2019-20 bets on ‘nexus approach’ for meeting SDG

India needs to focus on goals like hunger and gender parity, where it still scores low

The rise of the rurals

The Bharatiya Janata Party's famed "Gujarat Model" gets a rude jolt in the state's recent polls, especially from rural communities in the …

Promises alone cannot improve people’s health; government should know that

Now, government has promised ‘world’s largest health scheme’ whose implementation is not possible, at least in 2018.

'UBI can help people plan their lives properly'

As govt announces basic income for small farmers in its interim budget 2019, Down To Earth talks to Sarath Davala, who led a pilot study on UBI …

Experts disappointed with budgetary allocation to renewables

There has been a 46.8 per cent decrease in gross budgetary support for renewable energy ministry, they say

Can MGNREGA cushion the COVID-19 lockdown blow for Moradabad’s returning villagers

There is a sharp rise in demand for work under MGNREGA in Moradabad and other districts of the state