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

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

The meat you eat

A behind-the-scene look at how slaughterhouses in India dispose hazardous bio-waste by endangering the environment

Just dump it

Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of …

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Poor little rich states

Rich in natural resources but extremely poor, the three new states are in need of a new strategy for development. But no blueprints have been …

With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Touch that heals trees

Aaj Ka Roadshow

Liberalisation in India has not only affected humdrum life, but also popular cultural forms. This is palpable in the changing dynamics of the big …

Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village

Naxalism works

The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream