Bitter feud

Heads without tails

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

Planning Commission to SC: Rs 26 a person a day the 'adequate' poverty line

This has been arrived at by applying the price level in June 2011

A Query For Kaushik Basu

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

Water may shift from State to Concurrent List

Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June

Veerappa Moily to 'revisit' report on Western Ghats

The decision may be a tactic to buy time before 2014 Lok Sabha elections

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away

India’s carbon roadmap

BASIC distinct

Developing countries isolate Copenhagen Accord

Diesel prices: don’t miss the point

Fuel price reform is inevitable and necessary, but clean fuel and public transport agenda for health protection must not be derailed

Institutional monitoring of PPP projects made mandatory

Agencies, ministries implementing such projects will need to set up monitoring units to ensure private concessionaires follow Planning Commission …

NITI Aayog begins business without action plan

Will the Aayog's vision be any different than the top-down approach of its predecessor, the Planning Commission? 

New measure for urban poverty

A standard and simple exclusion method has been evolved to determine BPL families

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Harmful combo drugs flood market

Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them

The poverty quibble

Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …

India to bid adieu to Five Year Plans

The country will still have Plan documents but they would not adhere to a five year time period

Handloom threatened

Textile ministry proposes change in definition of handloom. Weavers fear it can ruin the tradition

Where SAIL's profits come from

State-owned steel giant’s profits are increasingly from raw material subsidies, not real economic value addition

What states stand to gain from food security law

An estimate of the population that will benefit from the food programme

India takes cue from China; to mine rare-earths

Will add two research vessels for the mining 

Freeing coal

As domestic coal production dips, plan panel proposes to allow captive coal power companies to trade coal

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means