Debating delivery

How effective have been the interventions by government and donor agencies in water management?

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

The battle of the Indian bulge -- II

UP agriculture policy rolled back

Update

Fishworkers' campaign draws attention to the sale of marine waters

Bangalore lakes leased out

H1N1 caught India sleeping

Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

'Village level forecast will take time'

What prevents Indian scientists from making weather forecasts for farmers? Sailesh Naik, secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, tells …

Seeds of Strife

The Seed Bill takes away states’ power to regulate seed prices, could lead to Centre-state confrontation

Virtual trip on Delhi's DTC buses

Update

Public transport scores over private in Goa

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

World leaders come together, demand price on carbon ahead of Paris climate talks

Carbon pricing is an effective way to decarbonise the global economy, feel alliance members

Profiting from disaster

Zoramthanga , the chief minister of Mizoram, has many reasons to reminisce the birth of his party, the Mizo National Front, an insurgent group …

Twist in the TRIPS tale

UK panel endorses South's stand on intellectual property rights

Corporation for Sustainable Development

Rajasthan announces draft biofuel policy

Land acquisition, rehabilitation bills cater to corporate interests

Centre ignores certifying agency

Private players set up forest certification body even as the ministry, which manages 90 per cent of the forests, gives it a cold shoulder

Fall of the paragon

Century-old teak plantation business loses ground in India because of poor management and short-sighted policies

Rise of third sector

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