Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy

Digging the earth

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

The need for the public sector

For services the marginalised need

In the pay of plastics

India's biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West's fashion for unsustainable living

Private project in public park

Residents of Vadodara protest construction of a multimedia laser fountain in a heritage park

Safal shows the way

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

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 …

Making hell-holes

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

What a waste

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

Perilous port

Proposed seaport in Vizhinjam can spell disaster for fishers, tourism and biodiversity in Kerala

Private affairs

The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) -- the grouping of the large and most powerful industries -- was …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

A joke we've played on ourselves

The deadly public sector

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

Cosmetic concern

Public private prank

Green politics for green technologies

Can business be responsible

Salvage science

Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister seeks more funds and education reforms in science sector

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

The facade of sharing

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private