Sugarcane farmers’ suicides: national rights body urged to intervene

Unscientific pricing of sugarcane, harassment by money lenders and delay in receiving payments are plaguing cultivators

Forget Union budget, track state budgets now

Modi's victory may mean push for Ken-Betwa river-link project

There is enough evidence that the project would be an environmental blunder, say activists

Missing pulse

Despite being a world leader in pulses production, India has been forced to import due to crop loss and seed deficit. The sharp rise in prices is …

PM chooses to continue with UPA’s 2013 Land Acquisition Act

A much-elated Opposition said that the government had to give in to popular sentiment 

Modi sedates the farmer

The BJP is repackaging old schemes and offering cosmetic changes to the agrarian policy

Centre approves national policy on offshore wind energy

Government hopes to repeat the success of onshore wind power development that happened in 1990s

What made people in Delhi choose Aam Aadmi Party

Both BJP and the Congress need to look beyond what went wrong with their election strategy

NDA v UPA? What about a democratic and progressive alliance for environment?

The NDA government has not dismantled the environmental governance structure. But it has also not taken measures to strengthen governance

Centre gears up to launch revamped sanitation mission

Corporate houses will have a major role in Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan which aims at achieving total sanitation by 2019

Distressed handloom weavers seek bailout

The allocation for handloom sector was reduced to Rs 620.5 crore in 2014-15 from Rs 2,960.5 crore in 2012-13 budget

Jammu and Kashmir was unprepared for flood fury

State did not have forecasting system or a disaster management plan in place

What Mr Narendra Modi needs to do for Ganga

Just planning more sewage treatment plants is not going to clean up the river

Nadia in West Bengal goes Churu way, achieves open defecation-free tag

Nadia’s campaign, termed “Sabar Souchagar” (toilets for all) was an entirely community-driven idea

Swachh Bharat cess: A few states may not agree on it

Except Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand, no other state has directly agreed to the central proposal

Solar alliance to be part of India-Africa Forum Summit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce a global alliance of almost 110 countries to encourage implementation of solar power to …

Power of the local

Panchayat elections almost contested with the Bihar poll. Is this desirable?

India and France invite countries to join International Solar Alliance

The initiative by the developing world that claims to address solar energy needs will be introduced at COP21

COP21: India and France show the way ahead by launching Solar Alliance

'The climate change agreement must send a clear enough signal to investors to encourage the scaling up of solar and other renewable forms of energy'

Modi's speech was about concerns of developing countries: Chandra Bhushan

Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi analyses Narendra Modi's speech at the COP 21 Paris

103rd Indian Science Congress begins at Mysuru

Event to stress on the use of science and technology for indigenous development in India

A bullet train for traders

Modi's pet project will add speed to a saturated sector but do nothing for millions of passengers elsewhere

Cabinet approves amendments to power tariff policy

Policy claims to ensure 24X7, affordable power for all

Sit up India, start worrying

Start Up India is a niche project that is unlikely to create the kind of job opportunities we need

The unbearable burden of 2015

This is the second full budget of the NDA, coinciding with the second year of its governance