Coronavirus update: 25 of 36 states / UTs record daily increase in cases

No decrease in number of deaths due to COVID-19 in any state

Mining at deep sea

Countries are delving deeper into the ocean to explore its mineral wealth. The deposits on the ocean floor are enormous and the ecology of this …

Pitfalls of a uniform food regime

In face of drought and rising food prices, attention shifts to local diet and food diversity

मनरेगा ने बदली सूरत

मनरेगा में काम की मांग इससे पहले कभी इतनी नहीं रही, जितनी कोरोना वायरस आपदा के दौरान रही है

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

El Nino fallout: food prices to shoot northward

The weather phenomenon will bring down production, increase food prices worldwide

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Economy of slippage

Agriculture sector has beaten pandemic, latest GDP figures show

Estimate for June quarter reported a contraction of 23.9 per cent in national GDP, but agriculture was the only sector to have reported positive …

Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme

The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment prtogramme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

15 lessons for India

As odd-even traffic restrictions in Delhi draw to a close, we highlight the takeaways from this massive community initiative to curb air …

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Paying farmers for ecological services

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Are our budgets participatory?

Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Losers again

Injustice gets nastier