Is Arctic rush worth it?

With Shell's proposed oil exploration in the Chukchi Sea, we revisit the potential impact of exploring oil, natural gas, minerals and fish …

A conservative agenda

Debates explode over more focus on species beneficial to humans

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

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 …

More government, less governance

Environment versus development: 2014 sets the stage for bitter polarisation

Why we should worry about 8% deficit rainfall in July

Historically, a deficit monsoon in July invariably leads to drought

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

A real disaster

Rich states, fewer disasters, more calamity relief fund

Foodgrains risk rot

No place to store seven million tonnes of procured foodgrains

On delicate ground

Demand to amend Forest Conservation Act looms large over talks between Naxalites and AP

Timely, but incoherent

Opportunity squandered

Survey reveals how MPs have made a thorough hash of development fund scheme

Solace in money plant

Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America

Panchayat civil servants, not yet

States want them, but not willing to spend on their salaries

Technology shift in India's nuclear sector

Ironically, the upgrade involves a technology that is being discarded worldwide due to its poor safety record and complicated processes

World Bank gets jittery

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies

Discussing Indo-US nuke deal

Book>> The Indo-US Nuclear Deal, A Reference Compilation Edited by S K Pande Published by the Delhi Union Journalists and its Media Centre, …

Uncommon swing for commons

States rush in with new policies and programmes to protect village land

Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats

Hope or hype?

CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge

Toothless at 10

A decade after their inception, Panchayati Raj bodies are yet to be granted adequate powers

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

World Bank gets jittery

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies

Grim reality of India's poverty dip