Urban areas can support biodiversity

Finding space in our city for nature

Contraceptive use among women rises in western states, Goa tops the charts: NFHS-5 data

Use of injectables and male sterilisation tools continued to be low across all states in the region 

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 …

Uprooted for the sake of compensatory afforestation

To compensate for forest land diversion for Parsa coal block, Chhattisgarh government identifies 16 villages without approval from gram sabhas

Save and Grow: a guide to sustainable cereal production

The technique focuses on conservation agriculture, maintaining soil health, selecting crops with higher yield potential and greater resistance to …

A lame duck Schedule of the Constitution

The true potential of the Fifth Schedule was diluted right at its conception

Major embankment repair works delayed in Bihar

Some of them awaiting nod of Ganga Flood Control Committee

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

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Lost track

Ahmedabad authorities plan to scrap cycle lanes in upcoming bus rapid transit corridors

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

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 …

Unreal in pampered India

With NDMC winning the smart city challenge, the contrast between where the government lives and where the rest of the citizens live could not …

Eyesores to city attractions: plans afoot to develop Delhi nullahs into eco-corridors

Pilot project cleared to convert Barapullah drain into an eco-mobility corridor

Court questions sealing relief law

Delhi to explain how the law is relevant to the Capital’s planned development

Citizens' reports indict Gujarat government for Surat floods

The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city

CAMPA bill defeated

The freedom to ride

Three steps for India

Bring buses, hike parking rates, levy congestion tax

On a skewed track

Metros must be subject to public review  

Orange tumbles

Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?

Smaller cities more polluted than Delhi: Study

Pollution levels are high all over the country, but unlike the capital, many smaller cities have not received the required attention

Our little understood urban dystopia

Half of Yavatmal’s soil not meant for cotton: study

District known for farmers' suicides has shallow soil depth which has very little capacity to retain water; report recommends switch to …