Will this be the fourth consecutive warm winter?

Longer monsoon spell, warm winter lengthen mosquito-borne disease outbreaks across India

To meet global target, countries want formal control over indigenous communities’ lands

As the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting takes stock of Aichi Targets, the suggestion of bringing indigenous communities’ areas …

Have regional parties lived up to people’s aspiration?

Be it Andhra, be it Bihar, regional parties have followed economic policies laid down by national parties

Do public protests decide election results?

Research gives a mixed verdict but given India’s socio-economic reality, protests do impact election results

More than 50% of India’s tribal population has moved out of traditional habitats

Tribals are quitting farming fast; every second household now survives on manual labour in an informal economy

In the next 14 months, 62 countries will go to polls

India’s 130 million first-time voters will play a decisive role in the world’s state of economy

The others too

The MeToo campaign comes at a time when women are being courted for electoral gains. Is it good or bad?

गरीबी का पर्यावरण

विश्व की गरीब आबादी पारिस्थितिक रूप से संवेदनशील क्षेत्रों में सिमट रही है

Again, stop talking about GDP

India missed another opportunity to shed its obsession with a bad measure of economy

Did economic liberalisation push govt and civil society in to battlefield?

The opening up of India’s economy increased the number of NGOs exponentially, but then…

Indira, Manmohan, Modi: Why all see civil society with suspicion

The arrests of activists and rights campaigners is set to further dip the relationship between government and the civil society

How to fight water scarcity this monsoon

Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich

With half a million new farm ponds, should farmers be worried about deficit monsoon?

In the last 12 years, the MGNREGA has created at least 46 new water harvesting structures in every village

गरीबी और आतंकवाद

जम्मू एवं कश्मीर में आतंकवाद की समस्या के समाधान के लिए फौजी ताकत का इस्तेमाल समझदारी भरा कदम नहीं है

8 years and Rs 228 crore later, Maharashtra fails to make even one village sustainable

The state’s scheme, aimed at creating environmentally sustainable villages, saw only up to 6% funds being used for green projects

1.2 mn schemes meant to supply drinking water to all couldn’t do it

The latest CAG report says the country might not meet the SDG goal as well with its current schemes

Bangladesh's GM gamble

Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not understand the new technology.…

Does poverty trigger extremism?

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

India needs 30,000 agri-markets to give fair deal to farmers

For 47 years, government has not acted on recommendation of upgrading rural markets into business hubs  

पंचायतों पर डोरे डालने के निहितार्थ

पंचायती राज व्यवस्था अपने 25वें साल में है। विकास का महत्वपूर्ण यंत्र बनने के कारण ये सभी दलों को आकर्षित कर रही है। 

The countdown begins

Irrespective of being left or right in orientation, the next elections will be about rural issues

Quotable Marx

An abridged selection of his memorable statements on the environment

Panchayat elections are set to become all the more important

These village-level governments have all the ingredients to make or break a political party’s fortune

Why political parties love schemes that benefit individual voters

Popular welfare schemes will be the focus of upcoming elections, but the unilateral focus to provide benefits to individual voter leads to less …

Generational spasm

To address the growing unrest across the world, we need to effectively utilise the demographic dividend