REDD+: India goes all out on safeguards, Tuvalu plays spoilsport

The Durbanator reports

Break the resistance

India’s TB control programme needs to engage the private sector

The forgotten class

Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor

R&D expenditure: A disturbing trend

NIGERIA

4 flu mutants

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

Farm reform

Open markets, land on lease

NITI Aayog’s PPP model for district hospitals pushes for privatisation of health sector

The move is in line with the Centre's agenda to push government health sector towards privatisation on the grounds that public health …

Head out

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority's efforts to reign in the private healthcare sector have been scuttled once again. Who is to be blamed?

State turns its back on health sector

With state-run health care facilities proving ill-equipped to tackle the surge in dengue and chinkungunya patients, private medicos are …

Pulses, neglected for long

Despite being a world leader in pulses production, India has been forced to import due to crop loss and seed deficit. The sharp rise in prices is …

Corporate takeover of the US

The Bush administration's agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore …

Controversial plan to sell water from Sheonath river

Ajit Jogi, Chhattisgarh chief minister, has announced an enquiry into the legality of India's first private project to supply water to industry …

New global agriculture census round to kick off in 2016

Agriculture censuses help to boost rural development and improve food security

Private sector must be engaged to restore degraded land

The onus of restoration lies on individual farmers, those organised as cooperatives and the companies that now know that long-term growth and …

Stops, too many

While bus aggregation services are on the rise, the country is yet to prepare a legal framework for them

Ministry gets a dose of perestroika

The ministry of nonconventional energy sources is being reoriented to improve efficiency and allow private-sector participation to develop the …

Watering down a success story

Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?

Scaling up private finance is crucial to bridge funding gap for climate change projects

India’s climate pledges need a staggering $10 trillion financial investment, about three times the country’s GDP

Use public sector lands for Make in India-like businesses, suggests Economic Survey

It also recommends the use of public lands for start-ups and industrial clusters

COP27: Global North governments want private sector to pay for loss and damage

Private sector companies’ understanding of climate adaptation and mitigation is limited, according to experts

COVID-19: Where are those pushing for privatised healthcare?

NITI Aayog, which has always advocated privatisation of public health infrastructure, has been silent recently  

Digging the earth

Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction

Ideas India

The book celebrates bold enterprises of ordinary Indians

River Inc.

Is industry hijacking the law to undermine communities' rights to water?