Grim news on jobs front for women

About nine million women went out of the job market in the rural areas between 2009-10 and 2011-12, a grim facet of the employment crisis in …

It’s about the poor

Poverty line figures hide people’s aspirations

Every drop counts

Look where the world stands as it celebrates Water Day on March 22

Imbalance of footprints

Resource-rich countries remain poor, and they spend most of their income on food. Developed countries conitnue to increase their appetite

Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

Delivering safety

All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest …

Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system

Last mile chaos

New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws

UN begins task of drafting declaration on sustainable development agenda

Delegates express concern over achieving equitable development

Flat in 20 days

Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …

Desperately seeking skills & jobs

India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people in the world. This demographic …

Kidney conundrum

A mysterious chronic kidney disease is afflicting a large number of people in India and Sri Lanka. Despite decades of studies, scientists are …

Troubled Beautiful Minds

They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to …

Desperate for gas

Gas is the cleanest of fossil fuels and also more efficient and cheaper to use. Yet, in India, there has been no policy focus on this fuel, …

The gas game

Fluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, have generated intense global debates. But these have been more about business than …

How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

World Health Statistics 2015: some achievements, many concerns

Down To Earth highlights the world’s performance on health-related development goals, where our successes lie and where efforts are still a …

Welfare schemes benefited only a quarter of urban slums: NSSO

Over 30 per cent urban slums across India have no toilets or drainage facilities, in spite of funds being made available under JNNURM and other …

Have some clothes to shed

If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth

ReNew economics

Employment in German alternative energy generation grows with the

THERMAL POWER

Power plants consumed 530 million tonnes of coal in 2014-15, which is around three-fourths of the total coal use in the country

'Investment in renewable energy growing by leaps and bounds'

Report shows investment in renewable energy has increased by five per cent to touch US $ 285.9 billion in 2015

India’s obesity doubled in 10 years: NFHS-4

The National Family Health Survey highlights that obesity affects urban population more than its rural counterpart

Southeast Asia’s double whammy—child malnutrition and obesity

WHO/UNICEF report does a reality check on region’s 'double burden'

Indian kids under the grip of type-1 diabetes

World Diabetes Atlas 2015 highlighted that more than 70,000 children are affected by type-1 diabetes in India