Nothing to bank on

The government’s much-hyped Direct Benefit Transfer programme has hit a roadblock. Banks have failed to meet the huge demand for opening …

Nagpur to fully privatise water supply from November 15

Consumer organisations demand public hearing

Road safety bill: Can it help achieve zero mortality?

Experts attending a roundtable organised by Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment urge for a people-centric law rather than one …

Panel calls for halt to water privatisation in Khandwa

Government committee says town municipality committed irregularities to favour private vendor Vishwaa Utilities; pressure builds to cancel contract

Jairam urges caution over Lancet series recommendations on nutrition

Rural development minister shares concerns of activists at launch of Lancet series; stresses community role in fight against malnutrition

Lalitpur’s baby formula

Programme to promote breastfeeding improves health of children under two

Punjab to offer free emergency hospital services

The scheme aims at addressing out-of-pocket expenditure in the state

Letters

Taking stock of biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in biodiversity. After missing the 2010 …

Price of nature

Book>> Payment for Ecosystem Services Edited By Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian Rs 695

Natural injustice

What are oyster reefs?

A friend in weed

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Natural bad debt

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Debate over effects of biomass extraction in forests

World shrinks for oysters

Book The economics of biodiversity conservation valuation in tropical forest ecosystems

Book>> The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Call from cave

Bats, largely elusive till now, are slowly revealing their secrets as scientists record and analyse their calls

Earth has lost half of its ecosystem

Two-thirds of land-based ecosystems must be sustained to support life on the planet, says study

Moneymakers

TO REVEAL OR NOT

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