The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

Bank’s first contest

Developing countries challenge US monopoly by putting up candidates for World Bank’s presidency

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

Hope flickers

Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so

Growth thirsty

Groundwater level is plunging in Dhaka. Experts call for making rainwater harvesting mandatory

Blind to danger

The government turns a Nelson's eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry

Water revolution

It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the …

Degree of commerce

Vedanta gets tracts of thorium-rich land along the Orissa coast for a university. Allegations fly

Arctic rush driven by desire to control hydrocarbon deposits, shipping routes

Small doses of chemicals harm foetus

Maharashtra, pollution board differ on Dow plant

Ratlam’s toxic legacy

Hazardous waste kept in shut factories continues to contaminate groundwater

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

Central India in grip of worst-ever drought

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

New EIA process stumbles at start

Chayawanprash, an ayurvedic tonic has artificial sweetner

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

The sinking ship

A camel breed that can swim struggles for survival as its food source dwindles

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

The swing

More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space

Watertight

Rate water fixtures for efficiency to cut wastage