Genocidal attitude

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Course charted

Slip up

Agenda for people's participation

Two new amendments to the Constitution promise greater effectiveness in civic administration and urban planning; but is that enough?

Changing mobility patterns, rising chronic diseases

How do we make mobility planning “Healthier”? What does Delhi teach us?

Green salute

Scientists at Maida's polytechnic college are r6versing the trend of rural upliftment through urban-basgd planning

Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

New poverty estimate scrapped

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology

Let states decide

Include public, fight Naxalites

Planning Commission wants to improve Integrated Action Plan

Rs 27 per day: India's new rural poverty line

New poverty estimate claims fastest ever decline in poverty during UPA's regime

Bound and gagged

Government's U turn on poverty line

Urban commons: Need to develop financing framework

Urban commons are mainly dependent on governments, particularly local governments that are more often than not financially weak

Budget by the people

Pune Municipal Corporation has been successfully implementing participatory budgeting since 2005

US anti-abortion policy spiked unwanted pregnancies in Africa: Study

The Mexico City Policy bans aids to NGOs for performing or promoting abortions as a method of family planning

Here comes the megacities

By 2100, at least 10 cities are predicted to have population over 50 million. How can society keep pace?

From Africa, with will

For the first time, African countries flagged off urbanisation as a factor impacting climate change at the recently held Africa Carbon Forum …

People trying to curb people

With the Vatican already on the offensive and various unresolved rifts, fireworks are definitely on the agenda of the upcoming population …

Momentum lost

SAARC STATES STALLING

Women on the warpath

BANGLADESH

COMBODIA