Bihar’s development model fails to save Nitish
Bihar, touted as India’s fastest growing state under Nitish Kumar rule, has thrown up a startling mandate and shown faith in BJP. The Bihar …
Increasing population, demand for food in Africa need urgent attention: Experts
Policies, mega plans by governments needed as 2023 priorities for action for food systems
‘Repressive governments use financial crises, global pandemics to change societal norms’
Sam Szoke-Burke, senior legal researcher, Columbia University, talks to DTE amid reports of governments trying to take control of land in name of …
COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity
Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …
Walk the talk on carbon tax, Mr Finance Minister
Is this carbon tax, imposed on the carbon content of fuel, doing what it should—reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for …
Gujarat High Court orders shut down of 12 manufacturing units in Mundra SEZ
Earlier court order halting construction without environment clearance was being ignored
CAG exposes land scam in Andhra
Government largesse to private enterprises and individuals cost exchequer Rs 1,784 crore
Bamboo flowering
People in northeast India fear bamboo flowering. According to an ancient belief when bamboos flower, there is death and destruction.
Poverty line delinked from food and other entitlements given to the poor
Government to wait for results of socio-economic caste census to decide parameters on who should be covered under social welfare programmes
Mangroves may have saved this village from Phailin
Residents of Praharajpur say the mangrove forest they nurtured contained damage to the coastal village
Wetlands and lakes will now be protected under single new conservation programme
National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems will include a national-level directive on criteria for lakes and wetlands
Perilous port
Proposed seaport in Vizhinjam can spell disaster for fishers, tourism and biodiversity in Kerala
Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand
With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future
Jobless growth comes to haunt beleaguered UPA government
Any job creation policy will have to refocus on ecology that has been giving employment to a large section of the population
CAG: Adani-acquired forested creeks wrongly classified as degraded forests
As per the Supreme Court’s classification of forests, Adani destroyed 2,000 hectares of mangroves in Kutch to build its ports, says the new …
Busan meet to decide how to make international aid effective, transparent
India and China, two emerging economic powers, may also be included under the aid effectiveness strategy now
Capacity building key to mainstreaming onsite sanitation management
CSE’s School of Water and Waste aims to establish policy principles, innovative technologies and implementation strategies for citywide …
COVID-19 rural crisis: Why MGNREGA needs a harder push
MGNREGA workers across the country on June 29 staged peaceful demonstration, raised demands for higher benefits and wages
Tribals block steel city Rourkela for a day
Odisha’s third largest city has taken over a few tribal villages so that it can function as a municipal corporation
Rs 13,000 crore to be spent on green India mission in next 5 years
Parliamentary Committee on Estimates pulls up Centre for failing to increase forest cover in the country
The Caspian affair
The landlocked Caspian Sea is a cauldron of geopolitics. Its essential ingredients: oil and natural gas
Energised by oil
Energy policy has always been of vital importance in the US. That's why oil and gas executives have taken over the reigns of the government today
Oil that glitters
Petroleum fuels the engines of the global economy. So there is never enough of it. Oil politics dictates international relations
Cancun redux
Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …
India growth story marred by disturbing inequity
68th Round of NSSO makes it amply clear that the wave of economic growth has not percolated down from the 0.003 per cent of population of ruling …