Has panchayatiraj deepened democracy?

World Tuberculosis Day

World Water Day

Budget : 2013-14 Package

World cancer Day

Gandhi, a contemporary environmentalist?

Is Hinduism insensitive to environment?

100th Indian science congress

Let's usher in 2013 with hope from 2012

An agrarian crisis like never before

Extreme weather events and lack of policies and mechanisms to drought-proof susceptible areas are crippling rural economy

New economy of the poor under grave threat

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy

Congrats Mr Modi, our readers have an agenda for you

With Narendra Modi set to take oath today as India's Prime Minister, Down To Earth readers have a list of suggestions for him and his government …

Changing electoral landscape of India

The emergence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi and the increasingly higher turnout of women and youth voters in the state elections point to less-…

Deluge of foreign patent applications in India

Scare tactics

Violence mars Bihar’s efforts to empower women, promote self-governance

Where have all the people gone?

The ministry of environment and forests' plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.

Flood for thought

The people of Baluchistan don't let nature's odds stop them from growing crops

New hope for the hirola

Kenyan Somalis use the court to prevent the Wildlife Services from translocating the endangered hirola antelope

Rising from the ashes

Today more than two-thirds of Japan's land area is under forests as a result of a state-sponsored afforestation drive which actively involved the …

Damning the Danube...

...is yet another example of monstrous short-sightedness on the part of governments bent on addressing their needs without a thought for the …

The Colour of GERMANY

For the first time in German history, the Green Party is part of the ruling coalition. The country is all set to embark upon new environmentally-…

Is pregnancy a disease?

The development of birth-control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups …

Not merely a numbers game

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …

Political hand behind tribal encroachment

Tribals displaced by the Salandi river dam in Orissa are encroaching on the Hadgarh sanctuary, allegedly at the instigation of the Socialist …

Anti-AIDS treatment aims at tolerating virus

Ayurveda practitioners in Kerala are experimenting with a novel approach to tackling AIDS: herbal medicines that increase the patient's immunity …