Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

COVID-19: Why power sector revival will likely be long haul

COVID-19 shocks may prompt major energy transitions to gas, wind and solar sector

Singapore taps its water

The Southeast Asian city-state strives to end its dependence on Malaysia for water

Bengaluru water utility to launch door-to-door drive to check illegal borewells

Residents continue to drill for borewells, unaware that registration is now mandatory

Use technology to make PDS transparent, efficient: Wadhwa committee

Supreme Court-appointed panel recommends phasing out private dealers from supply chain and doing away with above poverty line list

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

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Enter the Bank

The true cost of water

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

Against the flow

Protests against retail chains getting into fruits and vegetables

Letters

Air India admonished for sale, promotion of e-cigarettes aboard flights

Airline has flouted COTPA law, which prohibits all direct and indirect advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Dam at fault

Maharashtra builds dam in quake zone without permission. High Court refuses stay

Dismal picture of Maharashtra's environment

The water supply data in rural areas

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity

Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …

Public Deprived System

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

Kerala's answer to drought: PPP model for water management

Activists say the move will end up privatising water sources and wetlands; increase water cost manifold

Delhi's water supply skewed and mismanaged

Is the Haryana government really to be blamed for Delhi's water shortage? The answer perhaps lies in understanding the disparity in water supply …

Persistent in folly

Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the public distribution system, although their …

Rice: the real cost

It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over …

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food