Channels of interest

National Water Policy draft gives industry implicit priority over agriculture

Public transport scores over private in Goa

Jan Aushadhi Stores fail to take off

Very few visit governmentÔÇÖs generics retail outlets

Stuart Cole on effective transport management

Transport economist Stuart Cole is director of the Wales Transport Research Centre in Cardiff. On a recent visit to Mumbai, he spoke to Nidhi …

Safal shows the way

Mother Dairy’s retail model helps farmers but is under pressure from chains

Is new land bill up to mark?

Draft land bill proposes higher compensation for land acquisitions, but complaints persist  

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

High-speed derailment

Indefinite closure of Delhi airport metro line dashes faith in public private partnerships

History and our notions of ideal and modern

Battle against TB

Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication 

Tussle over land

Land acquisition Bill should take into account demands of those dependant on natural resources

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Making hell-holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Making Mumbai global hub

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 a waste

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

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

Scientifically invalid

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

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

Cosmetic concern