Asian, African cities rank low on water sustainability
Poor quality of water and inability to withstand natural disasters are affecting sustainability index of cities
A slum's daily struggle with water
A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …
The net is cast on agriculture
Aquaculture on the rise
Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development
Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007
Local smorgasbord
Book>> The food of a younger land: A Portrait of American food from the lost WPA files • by Mark Kurlansky • Riverhead books •…
Food as carrot
In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?
Perpetual Thirst
It has been 45 years since the first national water supply programme. This and many thousand crore of rupees later, more than half of India's …
Common sense delivers
Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.
Letters
Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure
The flush, the city and the river
For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …
Getting a city into shape
साफ-सफाई के अभाव में 200 करोड़ लोगों पर मंडरा रहा है कोरोनावायरस का खतरा
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मध्यप्रदेश का एक गांव मिसाल बन गया है कि कैसे डेढ़ दो दशक पहले किए गए कार्यों का फल बाद में मिलता है
Powerless firms
The crippling discom business needs fundamental restructuring for a future in renewable energy
Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths
They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification
'BRICS countries in a position to shape agricultural policies'
Most of the world’s 795 million undernourished people live in developing countries. These countries will need to increase their food …
Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis
There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city
Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe
The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here
Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS
State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain
Fixing the drought
To uplift the poor it is important to understand the root cause of poverty
Fuelling a food crisis
Don't smell a rat