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Being 'backward' in India

What’s the role of external financing in Indian Railways?

Let’s understand the growing prominence of external institutions in helping the government supplement its efforts to establish railway projects

Free for all?

IT's got the look

Government hospitals on sale!

India is eagerly handing over its public health facilities in towns and villages to private players. Is this the end of public healthcare?

In the eye of a storm

Business e-sense

Governments are duty-bound to promote open source software

Health Inc.

Private health sector needs to be guided so that it contributes to national health goals

It was always measly

Post-liberalisation, public funding in health care has reached a nadir

Divestment of power facility stuck

37 African countries continue to face food deficits, finds report

Agricultural slowdown in the continent is directly affecting 70 per cent of its population, who depend on the sector for livelihood

The price of Power

The powerful monopoly caucus that rules electricity supply industry a heavy-handed ragulatory -structure to protect the consumer interest

SMEs in Africa ignored in food and agriculture policy debates: Report

64% of food consumed across Africa is controlled by small and medium-sized enterprises

88% land conflicts in South Asia remain unsolved; 47% result in violence

Environmental damage was also a common problem, accounting for 29 per cent of cases

HEALTHY CHANGES

Spilling the beans

Brazilian scientists decode coffee genome

Boost to ecofriendly farming

A department of biotechnology project to popularise the production of biofertilisers has recently been approved.

Fighting the bug

How badly will the millennium bug hit India? While the Y2K Action Force says most government institutions will be able to meet the deadline, …

The last sparkle

Strong medicine

Private players in forestry

The right alliance

Deal shelved

Chhattisgarh decides to scrap a privatised water supply project. What happens next?

Wasteful plan

Communities in Rajasthan reject draft wasteland policy