New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Learn to walk lightly

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Short-circuiting discrimination or perpetuating them?

Nutrition programmes for Dalits need institutions to deliver and a vigilant citizenry to monitor implementation

India’s twin environmental challenges

Importing Disaster

From protests to where in 2012?

Land is more than just that

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Lack of MGNREGS work driving migration in rural West Bengal

Most men, teenage boys left their family behind to find work in other cities after Centre freezed funds to the rural employment scheme …

50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM

Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end

How to plant trees for development

There is no economic value seen in forests, but there is value seen in the development project for which forestland is required

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day

The PDS learning curve

Tike tike in Orissa

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Political symptoms

What bleeds Bellary

How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district

Reason for Bhutan’s happy face

The Himalayan kingdom has managed to significantly reduce its poverty level, but a section remains at risk of falling back into poverty

Curative resolve

A dose of political will, backed by communication skills, can help combat infectious diseases

The goat gamble

It has been a slow and steady shift over decades. Forced by declining returns from farming in ecologically fragile areas, small farmers have been …

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

20 years to…where?

C: Green planet

Will the world move towards a more fair and environmentally just future?