Centre’s revised guidelines for deep sea fishing anger fishers

Fishers’ protests against overfishing by big ships ignored; fishers to intensify agitation

Maharashtra elections: Welfare dominates tribal mandate

Vote likely to be split between the Congress, NCP and BJP

Money, money everywhere; not a clean drop to drink

Experts lament the lack of scientific planning and direction for cleaning of rivers in budgets

Check Jharkhand’s degrading environment

Unscientific mining has caused rampant environmental degradation in the state in the absence of proper monitoring

Largest hybrid renewable energy system to be set up in Jamaica

80 kiloWatt installation will generate more than 106,000 kiloWatt hours of energy every year

Sri Lanka clamps down on civil society groups

Activists say attack on freedom of expression is indicative of a deteriorating democracy

AAP rides on drug abuse issue in Punjab

Activists say Punjab may lose an entire generation to drug abuse

Angry Vidarbha farmers vote for BJP

Congress loses its bastion for failing to implement poverty alleviation schemes and inadequate disaster relief for farmers in distress

If only ‘jal manthans’ could secure our water supply

Experts reiterate the old suggestions at the three-day meeting to strategise for better development and management of the country’s water …

POOP – It’s not crappy!

If we utilized whole lot of crap India produced per day through open defecation, we could light around 1,092,000 street lights or 72,800 stoves …

Modi back to ‘vikaas’ hardline

Prime Minister seems to have gone back on promises to farmers

Power for all—can it be achieved?

Round-the-clock assured power supply programme to kick off with Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan; finances and logistics pose a huge challenge

Modi’s burden of civilising rural India

Our prime minister’s recognition of ‘uncivilised’ state of rural India means he should be spending more on ‘civilising&…

Cola and fruit juices don’t mix

The possible industry response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion may not be fruitful for public health

It’s pouring money and schemes in agriculture

No dearth of funds for agri credit and new institutions

Rivers, Provide and not Serve

Hydro-power, long irrigation canals, sand mining and water for industrial use: these are not what Maa Ganga in its magnanimity provides. These …

Waste quandary

A waste management expert voices his concerns about our misguided and selective approach to cleanliness

At industry's behest

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar's decision to lift the moratorium of 8 critically polluted clusters of the country is inexplicable. The …

Farewell to welfare

The budget is a patch work of abandoned schemes revived or existing ones being re-named. This is all for rural development

Modi mantra to a healthy and wealthy nation

The mantra of zero defect and zero effect manufacturing practice should translate into no pollution from industrial effluents

Mr Modi, how about including garbage in your sanitation deadline?

India is the sixth largest garbage generating country, but has made provision to treat only 12.5 per cent of it

Healthy maa Ganga needs healthy sisters

Varuna and Assi, the two tributaries of the Ganga that gave Varanasi its name and together defined the original extent of the city are fighting …

Delhi demands foresight

Amid promises galore by the Aam Aadmi Party , it becomes necessary to examine how it will implement its demanding manifesto and how environmental …

Modi's growth agenda sneaks into Indian Science Congress

The theme of the conference, 'science and technology for human development', struck a chord with scientists. It will be interesting to see if …

What are smart cities?

Smart city may simply mean a place where a smart phone can run all the errands for you. But the Indian urban challenge is not as digital and way …