India not on course for clean air target

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …

Costly largesse

US unveils safety net for its farmers, shackling global free trade and posing a threat to environment

Powerless and lost

Budget 2008: missing the big picture

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

The chulha politics

Bill will push PDS reform

Development economist JEAN DREZE, known for his work on issues such as hunger, famine, social and human development in India, child health and …

Solar energy not war

‘There is not enough milk’

Amrita Patel was part of the White Revolution that made India self-sufficient in milk. She joined Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’…

Old demons remain, new emerge

Developing nations warn any move to reinterpret UNFCCC will be counterproductive

Budget bites on vehicles

Fails to restrain use of subsidised diesel in private diesel cars

Raise tax on diesel cars

Proliferating diesel cars are a public health risk and drain the exchequer

India bans export of non-basmati rice

News 360° - Briefs

Prime Minister’s Logic

Is India ready?

Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer

Food vs fuel

Say cheese to Brussels

Pricing food in poor India

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Reform in fossil fuel subsidy is a mitigation opportunity

Money saved from the phasing out of fuel subsidies can be used for social and development programmes

On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn't? In 2003, two editorials in Down …

Private affairs

The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) -- the grouping of the large and most powerful industries -- was …

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme