Madhya Pradesh solar energy tariff hits new low with Rs 5.05 per unit

The rate is even lower than the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s benchmark of Rs 6.86 per kWh

Debt in half: Left or right

Peepal ki bhaji

Saviours turn killers

Around 40 lakh farmers of Madhya Pradesh waiting for PM-Kisan’s first instalment

Data mismatch due to confusion regarding Aadhar card and bank account numbers were found to be the cause of confusion in many cases

Madhya Pradesh second state to have plan for antimicrobial resistance

The move will encourage other states to develop their own plans, which in turn, will help in tackling antimicrobial resistance on the national level

Meet the Baigas

Baigas are a central Indian tribe who recently received habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act

Creative conundrum

Technology alone won't deliver smart cities. That would require innovative design and creativity in solving problems

First rights

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

Come clean

A shoddy cleanup exercise in Bhopal has left residents only angrier

Why has tendu leaf revenue not reached forest dwellers even after 50 years?

Tendu leaves, primarily used to wrap beedis, provide the largest seasonal income and employment to 7.5 million forest-dwelling people in 12 states

The cleanest cities of India: Indore tops the chart

Indore has also been ranked the cleanest city of India in Swachh Survekshan Surveys since 2017

Madhya Pradesh govt in denial mode after 7-month-old dies due to malnutrition

The girl from Sheopur district was admitted in a centre for malnutrition treatment; in the past hundreds of children have died in several …

Notes from the field: Rural transformation and MGNREGA

MGNREGA has been successful in Madhya Pradesh. Can the scheme also provide solutions for the current drought in the region?

MEF stumped

State governments badger the MEF to implement its own proposal of industrial plantations in degraded forests

Pre-history revisited

The discovery of fossil tracks in Madhya Pradesh by an Indian scientist may turn back life's clock by 500 million years

Power of knowledge

Organically inclined

Migration malaria

How human migration spreads malaria to new areas

No work, no vote

Ungreening the revolution

A programme initiated with much drum-beating, the green revolution has not just backfired but even eroded traditional systems of farming. Farmers …

Silk route to success

With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis

Green tribunal fines appellant for frivolous litigation

Baijnath Prajapati had challenged the environmental clearance granted to a thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh but later withdrew his plea

DMF helps Singrauli farmers grow vegetables, earn more

Grantee farmers will be trained in farming methods and guided about the kind of vegetables to grow, which can then be sold commercially