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 …

Medical education in India does not address larger social needs for health care

Medical education is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government's decision to extend reservations in institutions of higher education …

New global agriculture census round to kick off in 2016

Agriculture censuses help to boost rural development and improve food security

Deep despair

20,000 workers die in China's coal mines every year

Wheat and chaff

Grain import policy quixotic, lacks logic

The way ahead

Treatment has changed

Growth by leaps and bounds

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

The need for the public sector

For services the marginalised need

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

Run from cover

Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment …

Enable the poor

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Ideas India

The book celebrates bold enterprises of ordinary Indians

River Inc.

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

Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland