The new CMP five-year plan

Government wants readjustments in the 10th five-year plan; Planning Commission divided

A government in denial

Cannot wish ecological poverty away

Participatory pangs

Local governments and the problem of development programmes

Weaving votes

Needling shawl makers, and an antelope

Towards better cities

Finally a plan to reform the concrete jungles

Divestment of power facility stuck

Good bye, people's planning

The programme had little place in the debates of the recent Kerala panchayat elections

A miss on rural health

Experts fear new rural health plan, consuming Rs 6,713 crore in 2005-2006, will be a fiasco

The absurdities of governance

"All" of them

Rajasthan government accepts farmers' demands

Information power imperative

Democracy is not yet dead

Rural electrification: a non starter

Rural power not happening

A logjam in the making

Lack of enthusiasm marks the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

A year of leadership failure

‘Citizens must not just blame the government but criticise it’

Public policy expert Rajendra Pratap Gupta speaks about his new book

Trajectory of opinion

The social media is the winner as well as the biggest polariser of development news

Finally, on air

Community Radio>>Licensing • El Salvador

Bribery live

Smartphone>> Bribes • Russia

Art attack

Art>> Teaching • Swaziland

Putin’s 2 min

Video>> Animation • Russia

Gujarat village project

The philippines

Patents act

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