West Bengal withdraws land acquisition notification in Nandigram

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Who will grow food?

Heavy damage

Butterflies prefer coffee to tea

Court cements Nirma claim

Rejects farmers’ plea against cement plant in Bhavnagar

Tribals take on polluters

Sponge iron unit poisons their drinking water¤ farms

News 360° - Briefs

UN adopts declaration on rights of indigenous people

Revived to be killed

Sri Lanka’s Lunawa lake returns to its polluted state after a momentary sparkle

High court declares Singur land Act unconstitutional

Tata Motors welcomes verdict; Mamata says people’s choice will prevail

Kalinga Nagar tribals get assurance

Get us water

Changing gears

Oil’s crude touch in Gujarat

ONGC’s oilfields are ruining farms in Gujarat

Maharashtra government offers developed land; villagers unhappy

Real estate funds Metro

Urban planning given a miss  

In vitro testing needs a push

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam

Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years

New land acquisition bill will aggravate farmers' distress: legal experts

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

Skewed solutions

The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

The poor? They are the government's problem