Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

A new planning commission or an advisory body?

Indications are that the National Development Reforms Commission that will replace the Planning Commission will not have financial allocation powers

What is causing food inflation

It is protein products, not wheat and rice that are pushing food price index

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

Public Deprived System

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

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?

Lawsuit over bike lane in New York

Most say it calms traffic, some claim threatens pedestrians’ safety

AFRICA

Clean air at any cost

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

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

Correcting distortions

Perhaps yes, minister

Abandon paddy, build IT hubs: Montek

Planning Commission deputy chairperson gets flak for his advice to Kerala at investors' meet

New poverty estimate soon

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

JNNURM fares well

Only plans, no integration

संसद में आज: दो साल के दौरान कोयला खदानों में 254 हादसे

 बड़े शहरों के मुकाबले गंगा के मैदानी इलाकों के छोटे शहरों में वायु प्रदूषण सबसे अधिक है

Mirage of a river

Is restoration of the Sabarmati the way to go?

हर पंचायत में थी एक उन्नत ग्राम बाजार बनाने की सिफारिश, तीन साल बीत रहे अभी सर्वे जारी

गांव की साप्ताहिक बाजारों को उन्नत वैकल्पिक बाजार बनाने के काम पर अभी तक कुछ भी ठोस नहीं हो पाया है।  

उत्तराखंड में कैंपा फंड से सहेजी जाएंगी ऑर्किड की प्रजातियां

राज्य के समृद्ध जैव विविधता वाले क्षेत्र में ऑर्किड की कुल 236 प्रजातियां चिन्हित की गई हैं। अलग-अलग अध्ययन में यह भी पाया गया ...

शहरों से वायु प्रदूषण खत्म करने के लिए करने चाहिए ये काम: अध्ययन

एक अध्ययन में कहा गया है कि घर डेवलपर्स, टाउन प्लानर्स और राजनेताओं को समझाया जाए तो वायु प्रदूषण को काबू किया जा सकता ...

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 …