Farm laws repeal: Agri unions welcome move. But here’s why they won’t call off protest

The unions want minimum support price guarantee and the announcement to take effect through “due parliamentary procedures”

Modi’s COVID-19 bungle tilted Bengal more towards Mamata

COVID-19 nightmare enveloping India and West Bengal in the last 3 phases of the state’s elections helped TMC win, experts say

Migration crisis wasn’t handled well by Nitish government: Shaibal Gupta

Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at Asian Development Research Institute, spoke to DTE on Bihar polls and its national importance

Rajasthan faces farmers' ire for arresting their leaders ahead of indefinite protest

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee says that the state government arrested farmer leaders on Tuesday to preempt an …

Indian political parties must prioritise climate change on their manifestos

This would help in mitigating the impacts of climate change and ensure that the country is on a sustainable and resilient path towards a better future

Forest Rights Act to cast its shadow on polling in Himachal Pradesh

A large section of people in the hill state are united in their stand to boycott the elections as successive governments have failed to implement FRA

Andaman & Nicobar wants to take a reverse gear on oil palm

Sixteen years after the Supreme Court banned monoculture plantations in the islands' fragile ecosystem, the administration wants it revoked

West Bengal polls: What’s in it for Adivasis and forest dwellers?

For political parties, tribal votes matter more than including tribal concerns in their political agenda.  

Budget biased towards Andhra, fumes Telangana

Country’s newest state gets a horticulture university and a Debt Recovery Tribunal while Andhra gets an IIT, AIIMS, 20 industrial clusters …

How companies got their way on biodiversity

Amendments to the Biodiversity Act let companies off the hook on having to share the benefits of using biological resources

What led to UPA’s downfall in Maharashtra

Besides high profile scams that dented the image of the Congress-NCP alliance, their government failed to reach welfare benefits to the poor and …

Centre orders fresh EIA for Aranmula airport project

National Green Tribunal had earlier cancelled the environmental clearance given to the project after pointing out flaws in the EIA study

Will the mining stalemate affect Lok Sabha polls in Goa?

The mining industry’s poorest stakeholders, who comprise a sizeable population of Goa, have been rendered jobless by a state dragging its …

Maharashtra government dismisses 166 ‘corrupt’ agricultural market committees

Agricultural markets have turned into centres of political power, say farmers’ organisations

Ministries battle over applicability of Forest Rights Act

As development projects continue to receive Centre’s push, officials within the government fear that rights of tribal communities are …

Election 2014: How green are our political parties?

A look at the future of green clearances through the manifestos of political parties in the electoral fray

Most political parties turn blind eye to Maharashtra farmers' woes

Narendra Modi's visit to Yavatmal shatters hopes of farmers; he avoided addressing the demand for remunerative prices to farm produce

WTO trade facilitation pact: farmers' organisations ask Modi government to protect India's food security interests

Appeal comes a day before WTO general council meet takes up agreement that ostensibly would streamline cross-border trade

Fishworkers demand separate fisheries ministry at the Centre

Says BJP’s national policy on fishing and fishers released in 2012 recommended the same

'First 100 days show NDA has no intention to work for the poor'

Report released by network of civil society groups expresses concern over policies damaging to the environment

Day after mid-day meal deaths, vitamin A dose kills child in Bihar

Another incident of poisoning caused by mid-day meal reported from Bihar's Madhubani district

Jharkhand Assembly elections: parties ignore deforestation, displacement and pollution

Corruption and political stability on political parties’ agenda; 55 candidates have criminal charges pending against them

Karnataka polls: Bellary goes to mining barons

Winners Anil Lad of Congress and Anand Singh of BJP are mine owners. Reddy brothers' associate Sriramulu also wins

Lokpal Bill put in cold storage

Need more time to respond to 187 amendments submitted in Rajya Sabha, says parliamentary affairs minister

The battle for a strong Lokpal

As the showdown between Anna Hazare and the Centre begins what implications does it have for the relationship between the government and non-…