In Short

Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Pill on net

Mumbai fixes space for hawkers

Vendors call policy anti-business  

Socio Economic and Caste Census could leave rightful claimants out of BPL list

Activists point out several drawbacks in the inclusion and deprivation criteria

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

Grim reality of India's poverty dip

Slums as self-confrontation

The attempt to free cities of slums will only make them invisible  

Alcohol brands now targeting women and youth, says report

Expresses concern over alcohol brands being advertised in violation of rules

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists

Hunger games – it’s the real India show

Budget 2020-21: Govt likely to set up a national ‘plantation corporation’

Experts express concern; say move against Constitution’s federal structure

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

The City-not-so-Beautiful

Agartala's highrises get notice

Parliament panel says no to FDI in retail

Three cheers for democracy

Rs 11,000 crore lost in woods

Value of diverted forestland not recovered completely. Where is the money?

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Who are the poor?

Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality

An exercise in flippancy

Planning Commission report for a low-carbon future disappoints

Fresh development plan for naxal-affected districts

Rural schemes to be more flexible; get more funds

Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'