Bheed: A brave, flimsy take

Bheed is a loud social commentary that falls flat due to the weight of too many half-cooked stories & characters sequenced into a linear …

Narendra Modi government plans to restructure Food Corporation of India

Panel headed by former consumer affairs minister, Shanta Kumar, expected to recommend ways to bring in operational efficiency and improved …

Nursing home in Dhanbad operates on patient’s attendant

Relatives allege forced surgery was conducted to avail insurance money under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

PDS rice and wheat consumption has doubled in rural India: NSSO

Reforms in public distribution system and increase in number of people covered by it could be the reasons, say experts

Uttar Pradesh police opens fire on anti-Kanhar dam protestors

Tribal leader Akku Kharwar and eight others seriously injured in the firing in Sonbhadra district

Schools in Bihar's flood-prone districts to have monsoon vacation

Decision to hold classes in summers prompted by loss of working days owing to floods

Mid-day meal deaths in Bihar: insecticide poisoning suspected

Doctors treating children who took ill after consuming mid-day meal say they responded to anti-organophosphorous drug

Time for some ‘sustainable charity’

Water and electricity wasted because of the Ice Bucket Challenge could have provided water to 17,777 households and lighted up 16 million households

Will Bihar’s new CM uplift the Musahars?

Jitan Ram Manjhi is from the Mahadalit community that has been excluded from development till date

Protests mar Bengaluru consultation on draft solid waste rules

Programme called off after activists and civil society groups term the consultation illegal and unconstitutional

Mid-day meal scheme: Tamil Nadu shows the way

Ninety-two per cent schools in the southern state have good kitchen infrastructure, which is now being upgraded with cooking gas facility

A tsunami of questions

Why Bihar serves poor quality meals to school kids

There are no guidelines for hygienic preparation and handling of mid-day meals for children; monitoring at local level virtually non-existent

Kosi floods inquiry report submitted, finally

Inquiry commission was set up in September 2008 after Opposition party demanded thorough probe to fix responsibility for embankment breach

Floods kill 26 persons in Bihar

Bagmati, Mahananda and Kosi rivers in spate; large-scale displacement in four districts

Minamata Convention: India skips historic meet

Officials mum on why no official representative went from India

Solar street lights scam: Patna HC seeks explanation from state government

Petition demands CBI probe into purchase of substandard lights at inflated cost

Minamata Convention: deal signed to phase out mercury by 2020

From 2020, production, import and export of products that contain mercury will be banned under Minamata Convention

Mercury takes the shine off CFLs

Lower watt lamps use more mercury for extra glow, says study

Bihar hopes Union Budget will set right Finance Commission’s ‘wrong’

Finance Commission recommended curtailing funds under Backward Region Grant Fund

Hazaribagh villages up against Reliance Power

Maha-panchayat resolves not to allow its coal mining project in Jharkhand

Did Welspun fudge facts for its coal-fired power plant in Mirzapur?

Project will destroy forestland and wildlife, say non-profits; Centre's decision on environment clearance yet to be made public

Fruits of afforestation

Adivasis in southern Madhya Pradesh see salvation from malnutrition in a drive to plant fruit trees

MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs

Reasons for prolonged delay unknown

An atlas of India's groundwater aquifers

Maps in the atlas, released by Central Ground Water Board, indicate priority areas for water conservation and groundwater recharge