Cleaning up the air

Joint-efforts improve air quality of 10 cities in the US

Building a green roof

10,000 trees in 66 years, an octogenarian revives greenery in a village in Bihar

Autumn of a patriarch

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, famous social reformer, turns 80

Managing biodiversity

COVID-19: How to balance people’s safety and mobility

The major challenge in India post-lockdown is going to be maintaining people’s mobility without compromising safety

Can the world emulate Bangladesh’s ‘Community Clinic’ model?

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s initiative ‘Community Clinic’ got global recognition on May 17

India is facing a nasty outbreak of H3N2 — worst of seasonal flu viruses

H3N2 is a strain responsible for one of the three respiratory pandemics in the past century

African health ministers launch campaign to arrest sickle cell disease

Approximately 1,000 children are born with the disease every day in Africa, making it the most prevalent genetically-acquired disease in the region

'Half of India without significant wealth'

Inequality hurts democracy, which is why governments need to intervene and regulate to fix this trend: Lucas Chancel, lead editor of World …

Why management students need to be sensitised on human, public policy issues

A well-designed study of public policy can equip students with understanding of issues confronting society, economy and nation

Why electric rickshaws need better regulation in India

Enabling rickshaw drivers to switch from pedal to electric will increase their income and reduce carbon emissions from the transport sector

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

Selling a buffalo for a brain scan: India’s COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system

Patients are caught between the under-resourced public sector and the profit-focused private health market

Vaccine leadership, not chauvinism

We need the world’s drug regulators to come together to scrutinise clinical trial data — not take decisions one after another

Burden of safety: Public buses need to work for women

Women’s everyday travels put the burden of manufacturing the experience on them, when they should be tapped into building a more …

Bike-share companies are transforming US cities – and they're just getting started

The humble bicycle, aided by smartphone technology, is resurging as an urban transportation option

Kashmir has about 200,000 LPG-fitted vehicles, but not a single authorised filling station

Due to the unavailability of LPG filling stations, the owners of LPG-fitted vehicles have resorted to illegal means to refill their cars

For more skin in the game

With RBI and the Supreme Court calling for action against powerful debtors, state-owned banks have been put on notice

Haul your own garbage

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands-on is the best way to beat municipal overload

Putting trees before human life

On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons -- 69 of them women -- sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi …

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

Mass movement against Dunkel draft

Forty-five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new …

The minister and the menace

A recent workshop on people's management of the Rajaji National Park brought out in full fury the debate whether the local communities are wiser …

Empowering communities

FROM INDIFFERENCE TO ACTIVE PARTICIPATION·Frances Sinha & Sanjay Sinha·EDA Rural Systems

Learning made easy

The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …