Paris Agreement and India’s climate change challenges

Environment Minister said that India would start preparing for Paris Agreement implementation from 2017, but the budget did not see a boost for …

Energy pill for renewable sector

World Bank prepares off-grid scheme to revitalise growth

Curative resolve

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

Making Mumbai global hub

Mining rights subject to closure plan

Packaged water @ 10 paise/litre

Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property

Bias is in the law

Revived acquisition and rehabilitation bills offer little relief

Regulatory battle

Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Manipulating research

Gas distress

What about privatisation, then?

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

Whose budget is it, Mr Jaitley?

Being the first full year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government, there was expectation that the finance minister's announcements …

Licence revived, production halted

Government-run vaccine units fail to resume supply for immunisation programme

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Missing timber for wood

As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …

Another India is (not) ours

G8 and tragedy of Africa

Rich nations are forcing African states to change laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture in a replay of colonial adventurism

Fanning an alternative

Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, …

Scientifically invalid

Inter-Academy update on GM crops does little to redeem Indian science

Rajasthan opens farm gates

State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture

Into the abyss?

The situation of India's farmers has only become grimmer in the past decade, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office report