Orphaned by apathy

Hidden from the outside world, this is the plight of the Van Taungiyas. They were hired during the British rule as resident labourers to plant …

Contract killers

Deadlocked in Aligarh

On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless …

Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …

Children of a lesser State

A rare killer disease, Japanese encephalitis, has been annually and invariably breaking out in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. This year, so far, 3,…

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Just a lament

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve

Dust storm and mist

Why a pleasant autumn morning turned grimy for Savvy Soumya Misra

A thin green coating

No check on performance of green-rated buildings; developers pocket government incentives

Twice Unlucky

In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

Jaggery made using time-tested method is more wholesome

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Acquisition made easy

Cane fumes

Mills of Gorakhpur grind slowly, but they grind too fine

Unlikely man-eaters

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Kiln Eco-

Brickmaking is a profit-driven enterprise. At one level, it produces the basis of the built-up world. But what of the hidden -- ecological and …

Rs 67 crore later

...In Kanpur's Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan?

Resurgent polio

Eradicating polio in India is proving to be a tough ask. The disease, which seemed to have been contained a few years ago, is rearing its head …

Swamphen vanishing from Bakhira lake

Soor Sarovar bird sanctuary in peril

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms