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