Civil society & politics

Adieu polybags

COP27: The forgotten sustainable development goals

Some SDGs attract substantially less attention and resources from companies

Humans vs mangrove

India's missing toilets

Government unable to determine exactly how many households don't have toilets

Irregularities galore in Bt trials

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

In court

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

South Asian countries give sanitation charter to SAARC

MPs launched sanitation campaign in Kathmandu to addresses sanitation woes

A toilet per second

No toilet at home? Can’t contest local body polls in Bihar, says Nitish

State government to make amendments to the existing Bihar Panchayati Raj Act

Amended Forest Rights Act rules notified; more powers to gram sabha

Forest department’s role in managing forest resources curtailed

Measles catch-up campaign falls short of expectation

Health ministry officials say impact of the campaign will show results later

A march to highlight land struggles in India

Beginning October 2, activists will cover 75,000 km in a year

Cigarettes with additives pollute air more: study

Fifteen chemicals increased by 20 per cent or more in air with the cigarettes

1.2 million children in Karnataka are malnourished, state tells high court

Civil rights groups blame packaged food supplied to anganwadis 

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Letters

New Independence struggle

UNICEF launches campaign against defecation in the open

‘Take Poo To the Loo’ is a three-month-long campaign to create awareness among the youth

Science for All campaign eyes pan-India presence

Increasing the number of classrooms, introducing a post-graduate fellowship and launching a foundation programme to train full-time primary …

Waste quandary

A waste management expert voices his concerns about our misguided and selective approach to cleanliness