Budget 2013: 10 per cent surcharge on the super rich is justified and needed
But this needs to be accompanied by measures to improve compliance and wealth tax collection
Cauvery tribunal award is finally notified
Protests feared in Karnataka; government beefs up security in the river basin delta areas and around KRS reservoir near Mysore
Mumbai’s urban railway farms
Vegetable fields along railway tracks keep encroachers at bay; provides city residents with farm-fresh produce
Gandhi on capitalism
A rare interview extracted from 'An Interview with Gandhi' by French Journalist Charles Petrasch, which he took at London in 1931 (Courtesy: …
Gandhi as a human ecologist
Gandhi-Luthuli Chair Professor, School of Politics, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Drinking water scarce in Kumbh city
Health authorities say they are receiving large number of patients suffering from stomach ailments, diarrheoa
PMO issues directives to reduce pollution load on Yamuna
Delhi government asked to ensure sewage and effluent treatment plants meet effluent quality norms
Rohana’s healer of maladies
Meet Jaganath Singh who has been treating farm animals with herbs and plants for the past 80 years
Madhya Pradesh government cracks down on Indira Sagar dam oustees
They were staging jal satyagraha to demand land compensation and reduction in reservoir water level
Jal Satyagraha forces Madhya Pradesh government to relent
People affected by Omkareshwar dam to get land in lieu of land; water level of reservoir reduced
India’s Child Development Index ranking drops
Is placed along with countries like Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao
Goa's Regional Plan 2021 suspended
Manohar Parrikar orders cancellation of permissions granted to new projects under the plan
Bombay HC for phthalates standards in toys
CSE study showed over 45 per cent toys in India have more than acceptable limits of the chemical
Delhi High Court questions Centre on junk food
Asks it to file affidavit in six weeks on whether it has framed policy to ban it in schools
Founder of Sri Lanka's sarvodaya movement turns 80
A T Ariyaratne: conscience keeper of a bruised nation
Residents protest Tata Power’s modernisation plans for Trombay plant
Modernisation will increase pollution, say residents
Chemists in Delhi to go on strike on March 15
Proposed drug pricing policy lowers their commission
Coal country politics in Surguja: people forsaken by the fine print
Massive forest fire breaks out in Goregaon Film City, Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Cause of fire yet to be established
Agricultural labourers do not get even two square meals a day, reveals NSSO survey
About one per cent rural households do not get enough food throughout the year
Nilam lands at Mahabalipuram on Tamil Nadu coast
Over 4,000 people evacuated to relief camps
One killed as protest against tribal displacement turns violent
Assembly adjourned as a MLA tears off his shirt
Nagpur municipality notice to women corporators: keep interfering husbands at bay
These men have been attending meetings and issuing instructions in place of their wives
Scientists map microbes in healthy humans
Will help in diagnosis and treatment of diseases
Siang goes dry, says Arunachal Pradesh minister
Official, activists counter, say the statement is to allow dams on the river