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

Delhi's poll planks

Cereal killer

By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India's most malnourished …

Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner

Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening

Grain of truth

India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared …

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

Science and Technology - Briefs

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Give native knowledge its due place

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

Changing diets

Eye on accuracy

Realisation to make meters error-free may have come late to India, but technology is making rapid strides

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat