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Public protests mount against Bt brinjal

Supreme Court seeks details on steps to protect indigenous varieties

Surging bird flu cases may increase human infection risk, warn UN agencies & WOAH

Urge countries to strengthen disease surveillance and improve hygiene at poultry farms

Time for course correction

Congress likely to go all out to woo people in the new budget

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

Alternatives to endosulfan

FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants

Low cost, high risk

Same indifference

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections: Will MSP promises make a difference?

Madhya Pradesh government at present is buying 36% of wheat produce, 19% of paddy from farmers

Bhutan becomes first country to sterilise all stray dogs after 14-year-long project

New report by WHO, FAO & WOAH recommends oral rabies vaccination

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

GlaxoSmithKline fined for unethical drug trials on infants in Argentina

Pharmaceutical giant to file appeal in apex court

What is causing food inflation

It is protein products, not wheat and rice that are pushing food price index

The PDS learning curve

Tike tike in Orissa

Poll posturing

Down To Earth gauges the ground reality before assembly elections

More floods, no winter

Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

Tropics could lose important commercial fish by 2050

Global warming might force fish species to move to cooler waters at the poles

Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh swims seven seas to raise awareness

The initiative is to campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas across the world

Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy