India's data blockade: Certainly uncertain terrain

No recent NSSO survey release passed without controversy

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran

Religious planning

Shot to birth

A recently-developed Indian birth control vaccine is being debated to death

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Plans gone awry

Road to cool cities: Codes based on unique ‘urban form’ can be helpful

Urban India is a heat trap, but road orientation, building materials and zone-specific master plans can drastically enhance thermal comfort

Lifting the barriers

Reproductive choice, gender equality and sustainable development are closely connected, say the latest report on the world's population

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? 

Bihar plans policy change to push urbanisation

The state government has prepared a draft seeking changes to ‘old criteria’ for notifying semi-urban or rural area as urban 

Yojna Banao Abhiyan - then a hit, now a miss

The local administration in Jharkhand is undermining the decentralised scheme, created to enhance livelihood, manage natural resources and …

Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of

More than 25,000 delegates will meet in Quito in October to set out a New Urban Agenda for the UN, to be implemented over the next 20 years

How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm

Sustainable agriculture in Africa has the ability to act as an example for other regions worldwide. But to do this the approaches and technology …

Women to the fore

The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women

Talking about air

Participants at a recent workshop in Hyderabad expressed concern over the growing rate of air pollution in South Asia

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

Dalit-adivasi agenda for inclusion of SC, ST rights in election manifestos

Kerala launches an on-line campaign on dalit and adivasi concerns

Harmful combo drugs flood market

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

Urban form and travel to completely change after COVID-19

Central business districts will decline while larger apartments will be in demand as more firms consider making employees work-from-home, a …

COVID-19: Self-sufficient neighbourhoods are needed to make cities resilient

The need is to recognise what a neighbourhood requires and ensure that the planning makes everyday needs available — and accessible&…

The poverty quibble

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

Unplanned development

In my city, without my car

From an object of desire, cars will turn into an asset of shared mobility