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Rise of third sector

NGOs’ relationship with the government has been redefined over the years with changing social and political scenario

South Africans are finally set to know who funds their political parties

Even as the Supreme Court of India is in the middle of hearing a petition on political funding here's looking at how South Africa is dealing …

Rush to form political parties in India

The rush to form political parties is triggered by Finance Minister Jaitly’s proposal in his budget speech to amend section 2 of the …

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

Look who's talking!

The president of the world's most polluting country blames India for global warming

A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Will seeds bill make it this time?

Opposition parties say the draft is still not farmer-friendly

Everybody’s loss

Delisting fruits and vegetables from APMC Act in Congress-ruled states will not benefit farmers

Everybody’s loss

Delisting fruits and vegetables from APMC Act in Congress-ruled states will not benefit farmers

A tinge of green

Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just-concluded assembly elections.

INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …

Left in peace (L.I.P.)

Forget ideological shibboleths. The market is the great equaliser. Even politically

Nandigram and CPI(M)'s insensitivity to rural sector

Liquid debt

A trial with too many errors

Infighting within AAP post its brute win in Delhi raises doubts about civil society's tryst with electoral politics

Facebook is restricting search results – is this taking transparency seriously?

Facebook is deliberately limiting the number of archived public messages anyone can see: hiding many messages sent by all manner of Facebook pages

Why the silence on climate in the US presidential debates?

Those who have denied climate change for so long will find it very costly – both politically and psychologically – to reverse their …

Dinosaur age ministers

Poll posturing

Down To Earth gauges the ground reality before assembly elections

Political symptoms

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government