Slums on rent

Dhaka has seen a sharp rise in privately owned slums. Are these a better alternative to 'squatter settlements' common in India?

Not ready to till

Insurance against dirty water supply

Make water utilities accountable to public first, say activists

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

A look at world urban population

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Injustice gets nastier

राजकोषीय संकट : जानिए क्यों आकंठ कर्ज में डूब गया एफसीआई

बढ़ती हुई एमएसपी और 81 करोड़ लोगों को मुफ्त पांच किलो अनाज प्रति महीने देने की योजना ने बजट के विपरीत एफसीआई पर कर्ज ...

क्या राजनीतिक छत्रछाया में पल रहा चीनी उद्योग पर्यावरण, खाद्य सुरक्षा और स्वास्थ्य के लिए भी है फायदेमंद?

स्टैनफोर्ड यूनिवर्सिटी ने भारत के चीनी उद्योग का व्यापक विश्लेषण किया है, जो बेहद रोचक है

COVID-19 and the big pharma mess

The pandemic has exposed a serious fault line in the global pharmaceutical supply chain, created by an industry that flourished by putting profit …

THROWBACK: How China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater

Even as Indian cities become increasingly water-scarce, they get flooded — as Mumbai is getting now — by a few days' intense rainfall.…

2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water at home; rural-urban gap persists

The WHO and UNICEF report finds significant inequalities in basic water, sanitation and hygiene services

Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people

The obsession with insurgents is so deep that no one is paying attention to health and education in this ancient and beautiful land

Report promotes win-win situations in food habits

Dietary habits across the world having low environmental impacts can also ensure good health, experts say

Why we cannot ignore the poor

One thing is clear—the solutions must work for the poor, for them to work for the rich

'Inclusive urbanisation is the answer'

S Janakarajan, professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), conducts research on urban and peri-urban issues, disaster management …

Towards a better yield

Stories of success and failure

South Asia

To store and to have not

Poor planning creates shortage amid plenty

An open letter to Devendra Fadnavis

As the new chief minister of Maharashtra wins the trust vote in the state Assembly, these are a few things that need his urgent attention

India's gold follies and food security

Why are lawmakers so ready to forego huge tax revenues on gold but baulk at spending on food for the poor?

People in Argentina in favour of nationalisation of water company

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …