Embrace of an unforgettable conservation crusade lingers on

Impacts of Chipko are still visible in the state after four decades.

चिपको की छांव में

उत्तराखंड में बहुत कुछ बदल चुका है, लेकिन चार दशक बाद भी कई इलाकों में चिपको आंदोलन का असर साफ नजर आता है।

Cabinet nod to joint parliamentary committee recommendations

Why liquidate our future?

The development laboratory

Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two

Access to justice curbed

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

New sand mining guidelines call for robust monitoring and sustainable development

The guidelines try to create a balance between preserving ecologically sensitive river habitats and the need for infrastructure

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water

A village that took on miners

Panchayats to get poverty alleviation funds

GM field trials now need panchayat nod

Dow ransacked

The curious case of panchayats in Delhi

The Nagar Swaraj Bill will usher in decentralised governance in the city state, but what happened to rural panchayats?

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Civil society & politics

Water wars

Panchayat fights to retain what is left of Saligao's groundwater

People’s manifesto

Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto

Who owns the river?

The Rajasthan government believes that it has a right over every raindrop and makes a move to demolish a water harvesting structure set up by …

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Rooftop revolution

More and more people in food-deficit Kerala are taking up terrace farming to grow organic vegetables and fruits

Role models

Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites

Who dropped MESA?

Government clueless about the Bill it introduced 12 years ago to govern urban areas in tribal regions. Constitutional crisis follows