Will welfare schemes win votes for UPA?

An analysis of Brazil’s last three elections suggests that peopleÔÇêdo vote for parties for such initiatives, but only when …

Consumer forum stays water privatisation in Khandwa

Town's municipal body asked to first address objections filed by residents

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Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Maharashtra braces for water emergency

No rains in October, coupled with high temperatures, have aggravated the crisis

Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers

UN 2023 Water Conference: 46 years after Mar del Plata, it’s time to examine the successes and failures

Access to clean water and sanitation remains a significant challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in low-income countries and …

Curtain raiser: Here is what we can expect from the upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference

Conference will focus on ensuring that countries deliver on promises already made and are designed to be action-oriented, inclusive and cross-sectoral

FAO claims new platform to help fight food loss, wastage

Global body estimates that 14% of food is lost annually and leads to emission of around 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2

Water quality deteriorating in Kochi, reveals audit

Only 24 per cent households implement water conservation measures like reuse and recycling

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

After Cape Town, another place in South Africa is fighting off a ‘Day Zero’ water crisis

Dam levels at 16%; fixing leaks and reducing consumption among measures taken

COVID-19: A long lull for Kashmir’s cherry, strawberry growers

Farmers struggle to find consumers, exports badly hit due to lockdown 

If only cities can see wetlands

It is time we realised that a water body is not an ornamental luxury or a wasted land

Parties steal Congress show

BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh enacts its own food security law, non-Congress states to follow

Run-up to UN Water Conference: A third of people surveyed by global study suffer from freshwater shortage

Strong concerns about freshwater shortages have increased over the past few years, from 49% in 2014 to 61% in 2022

Book Review: A chemist’s sceptical look at nutritional wisdom

Overprocessed chemical-laden stuff is bad for you; it’s pure malevolent junk. George Zaidan has chosen this junk food truth as an excellent …

Corporation for Sustainable Development

HIV+ patients protest months-long drug shortage outside NACO office

The patients have demanded fixing irregular supply of everyday antiretroviral therapy medication   

Drinking water shortage to hit Maharashtra as drought worsens

In the Vidarbha region which is facing 30 per cent rainfall deficit in the first half the monsoon, the situation is very grim

Nagpur municipality proposes action against private water supplier

Orange City Water Limited fails to supply 24X7 clean water; people demand cancellation of contract

Centre directs states to restrict advertisement, promotion of tobacco products

Move follows Supreme Court vacating stay on rules regulating tobacco advertisement and distribution

A tale of two cities

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good