Panchayati Raj Day: Pandemic and the panchayats
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says: ‘We need to learn more from how villages manage COVID-19 pandemic than from cities’
अंतरराष्ट्रीय जैवविविधता दिवस : मानव और एलियन बने जैवविविधता के दुश्मन
एशिया प्रशांत के द्वीपों और समुद्र में एक नए आक्रमणकारी परिग्रही (एलियन) ने स्थानीय जैव विविधता के लिए तनाव पैदा कर दिया है। खतरनाक यह ...
Sunaina Rawat and the dilemma of Bharat
The new government has to focus on the rural population, their aspirations and the economy
चुनाव 2019: नई सरकार को विरासत में मिलेंगे समस्याएं और मुद्दे
यूपीए सरकार में हुई गलतियों को एनडीए सरकार ने न केवल दोहराया, बल्कि उन्हें और बड़ा कर दिया, जिस कारण ये समस्याएं विकराल रूप धर ...
MGNREGA: Drought-hit India abandoned 18 lakh water works in just one year
India's villages miss a golden chance to become drought-proof as more MGNREGA projects grind to a halt
'Natural disasters are shaped by social and economic inequality'
Down To Earth speaks to historian Ben Kingsbury, who, in his book An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876, says natural disasters are …
सूखे का दंश : सूखाग्रस्त जिलों से ही पूरी होगी खाद्यान्न आत्मनिर्भरता
भारत में पिछले 40 सालों से बुवाई का क्षेत्र स्थिर है। खाद्यान्न की मांग को पूरा करने के लिए सूखाग्रस्त क्षेत्रों में उत्पादन बढ़ाना ...
15 साल में धरती का 35,204 वर्ग किमी वन क्षेत्र कम हुआ
रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि बढ़ती आबादी के दबाव और गरीबी के कारण भूमि क्षेत्र में बदलाव देखने को मिल रहे हैं
Desertification: Planet’s tree-covered areas fell by 35,204 sq km in 15 years
Countries party to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification meet to review the first global land degradation assessment
Education, infrastructure saving grace for top districts: NITI Aayog report
Top performing districts still lag behind in development parameters like health and nutrition
A political thought for food
Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system
Come back holy cow
Cow, from being an axis of a farmer’s economy to being abandoned, is too big a change people would bargain for
Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time
The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …
रोजगार मिलने पर भी बदहाल
दिहाड़ी मजदूरों और असंगठित क्षेत्र में काम करने वाले गरीबी में जिंदगी गुजार रहे हैं। इनमें उन लोगों का अच्छा खासा प्रतिशत है जिनके ...
Sandalwood moment for cows; Madhya Pradesh’s proposed law will be the last nail for livestock economy
Government's proposal to make abandonment of cows punishable will make it a pariah breed and would fuel widespread black market for trade, just …
India’s criminal wastage: over 10 million works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned
Since April 2014, the rate of work completion has been declining at rapid pace, indicating that crucial assets for villages are not getting created
Foodgrains risk rot
No place to store seven million tonnes of procured foodgrains
Employment enigma: India’s high rate of self-employment gets reflected as a decrease in unemployment rate
The number of self-employed has increased in India, a trend usually seen in poor and developing countries with low per capita income
Is COVID-19 containable
The coronavirus pandemic now rivals lifestyle diseases in its spread
War-Pandemic: World is poorer now; will double its poverty level on the target year of eradication
Poverty is getting concentrated and chronic in sub-Saharan Africa and rural areas
‘Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income’
To double farmers’ income reduce the number of farmers, suggest policy makers
GDP obsession
If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?
Saraswati underground
Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo-channels and put them to good use
On delicate ground
Demand to amend Forest Conservation Act looms large over talks between Naxalites and AP
Timely, but incoherent