AFRICA

Clean air at any cost

Tamil Nadu district climate change missions: Is it really decentralised governance?

Climate change governance at the local / district level should be collaborative, flexible, strategic and reflective, rather than a bureaucrat-…

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

The goal of family planning programmes is not to hit population targets but to empower women so they can choose the number of children they will …

India is moving at jet speed, people should be able to move too

1 in 4 men and every second woman in India are physically inactive; can Indian construct cities which are creators of health, environment and equity?

A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY

The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …

Greening a state

Himachal Pradesh chief minister has broken all bureaucratic shackles and initiated eco-friendly programmes in the state

Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system

Poverty line delinked from food and other entitlements given to the poor

Government to wait for results of socio-economic caste census to decide parameters on who should be covered under social welfare programmes

What's your view of the road?

If we are not able to walk, we cannot really build a vibrant public transport network

Mirage of a river

Is restoration of the Sabarmati the way to go?

BIODIVERSITY PLAN

EROSION CHECK

UNITED NATIONS

In nature's backyard

New eco-friendly market towns can stop downhill migration

CLOSE POLLUTING INDUSTRIES

FOLLOW UP

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Master violators

Will the real land sharks please stand up?

Floods in Nigeria: Building dams and planting trees among steps that should be taken to curb the damage

Some of the principal causes of flooding in Nigeria are rapid urbanisation, poor spatial planning and poor solid waste management

36 per cent cities to face water crisis by 2050

An estimated 400 million people currently live in cities with perennial water shortage. The number is slated to go up to 1 billion by 2050 due to …

‘Dual contraception is a must to avert HIV infection’

Hormonal contraceptives, promoted in developed nations, put health at risk, says a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Sonal …

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

Crisis in the Konkan

Creating biosphere reserves, which reconcile the interests of wildlife and humans, may save the Konkan coast

New poverty estimate soon

But will it reflect true level of poverty in the country?