A tale of two diseases

India is the shining star in the global battle to eradicate smallpox. It is also a branded villain as far as polio is concerned. How is it that …

Last call

Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?

Forestmaker

A man who has done commendable work in afforestation remains hidden from the limelight

A miserable place to live

Kanpur's residents breathe polluted air and drink water of dismal quality, but do nothing

Collector's item

Iconic city or concrete jungle?

A “clean-green” city project spread over 400 hectares in Unaao will prove disastrous for the choked Ganga

Bad business all round

Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book

A few good men

Seven months of hard work and sheer dedication has made Pithoragarh free from polythene bags

A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them

Western disturbance to impact many parts of India

A wet weekend is in store for northern and central India

Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …

The Himalayan herb grower

Arun Kumar Badoni has taken upon himself the task of conserving medicinal and aromatic plants in the Garhwal Himalaya

The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …

Dussehri's entrepreneurs

Village women emerge as successful entrepreneurs thanks to NEED an organisation with a difference

Strings attached

Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Remains of the day

Vaccine woes continue

More arsenic

Exactly how widespread is the presence of poisonous arsenic in the groundwater that Indians drink? In Delhi, a doctor's phone call propels Down …

Camel Yatra

Rajasthan's camel population has reduced dramatically during the last ten years. The Pali, Rajasthan-based non-governmental organisation Lokhit-…

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …