Punjab: end of the revolution ?

Cost of production has spiralled, but the rate of increase in production has not shown a similar trend. Ecological and social costs, meanwhile, …

Diminishing returns

Participation or takeover?

Private companies now dictate terms in Maharashtra’s agriculture sector. Punjab follows suit

Same indifference

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

Minor no more

Environment ministry regulates mining of minor minerals, finally

'SLAPP'ed but will not submit

When all flows out

The recent dispute over the Indus' waters stems from its faulty allocation

Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Punjab sets an example by banning junk food in schools

By not allowing children to bring junk food from home, the state education department's message—that junk food is unhealthy—is made …

Home where the blackbuck roam

The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck

Wealth from waste

A farmer from Hitapur village in Ludhiana district of Punjab has evolved a system of resourcefully utilising all his farm waste

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

The acre-feet fuss

But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!

Tackling rape and sexual violence

It is time we had a national body, not merely our politically appointed, generally toothless  Womens' Commissions, with trained, dedicated …

Gender balance gadget

States turn to dubious technology for saving girl child

Making polluters pay

Despite bureaucratic hurdles, a non-governmental organisation hope to bring to book an erring paper mill in Punjab

It's political

Water scarcity in a Faridkot village

Parched Punjab

India's most agriculturally prosperous state, Punjab, is staring at an impending groundwater crisis. Over-extraction of groundwater and faulty …

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Tapping wastewater

Put into effect in earnest, the law on wastewater recycling can provide lasting relief to a parched Delhi. samreen farooqui delves into the issue

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely