Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back
'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'
Scientists’ panel to add new member for report on GM field trials
Weeks after expert committee recommended moratorium Supreme Court agrees to agriculture ministry's request to add new member to panel
Major revamp of ICDS recommended
Inter-ministerial report calls for improving infrastructure and facilities at anganwadi centres
Union Budget: challenges of public provisioning in India
Will the first budget of the 12th Five-Year Plan make a serious effort to plug loopholes in revenue collection and increase spending on social …
ASHAs not enough to deliver healthcare to urban poor: study
'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare services to meet their needs'
'Development in Telangana should be participatory'
Eminent economist and former Planning Commission member, C H Hanumantha Rao, speaks to M Suchitra on the aspirations of people of Telangana. Rao …
Push to include access to energy in UN development goals
Speakers at a consultative meeting in Delhi call for finding sustainable and affordable technological solutions for making energy accessible to …
Direct Cash Transfer scheme begins on low key
Government scales down UID-linked scheme to 248,000 people in 20 districts
We need our slaves
India tops the list of countries with huge numbers of modern slaves. But there is little outrage or concern here over what is an everyday reality
A lame duck Schedule of the Constitution
The true potential of the Fifth Schedule was diluted right at its conception
What happened to India’s flood management plan?
There is no national-level flood control authority in India — 43 years after the country’s first and last commission …
Health goals of 11th Five-Year Plan unmet. 12th Plan hopes to achieve them
Planning Commission's working group recommends repeating last Plan targets in the 12th Plan
Centre launches MGNREGA 2.0
30 new types of work added to the rural job guarantee scheme list to restore demand for work under UPA's flagship welfare programme
Universal health scare
The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …
Fresh development plan for naxal-affected districts
Rural schemes to be more flexible; get more funds
MoEF failed to protect environment: Public Accounts Committee
Forest cover of India is just 21 per cent against the target of 33 per cent set by Planning Commission for 2012
Jobless growth comes to haunt beleaguered UPA government
Any job creation policy will have to refocus on ecology that has been giving employment to a large section of the population
Lives of others
Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …
The big challenges for Telangana
Telangana region accounts for huge chunk of natural resources of undivided Andhra Pradesh. Will creation of new state intensify existing regional …
A step-by-step guide on how Union budget is formulated
To start the process, the budget division issues an annual budget circular around the last week of August or the first fortnight of September …
The widening nutrition gap
Difference in the nutritional status of Kerala’s general rural populace and that of Attappady could be as high as 50 per cent
Kind to Cash
A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.
Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …
Gamble for guar, soy
Despite demand and production, farmers lose to futures trading