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The statistician who "planned" India

P C Mahalanobis can rightly be called the father of Indian statistics. Today, in the year of his birth centenary, he is remembered not only as …

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Social sector spending by UPA regime

The UPA government in its 10 years in power increased spending in social welfare sectors but not on agriculture, the backbone of rural economy

Confusion over RTI persists

Do PPP ventures come under RTI Act? Planning Commission says not its call

Climate hara-kiri

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

Urban commons

Down to Earth reaches out to experts to understand the scope and limitations of reimagining urban commons

Women bear the brunt of Africa's urban disasters, such as the collapse of landfills

When it comes to urban disasters - both natural and otherwise - death has a gender

सरकार असफल या नसबंदी?

नसबंदी के बाद गर्भ ठहरने की शिकायतें देशभर से आ रही हैं, वहीं इसके एवज में मुआवजा लेने के लिए लोगों को अदालत जाना ...

Government announces names of first 20 smart cities

Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur top the list

What Cairo did not discuss

Saving town centres

Centre tightens the leash

Restrictions won't curb population growth

A matter of life and death

PERU

BRAZIL

New plan mooted

No fire exits in Delhi

Bad urban planning and a corrupt administration means fires will continue to claim lives in Delhi

The new CMP five-year plan

Government wants readjustments in the 10th five-year plan; Planning Commission divided

Urban villages - an oxymoron?

Urbanisation in developing countries is marked by large increases in population and has consequences such as sprawl. As a physical phenomenon, …

Positive partnership

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Bitter feud