Trouble in store

India gets ready with national plan on climate change

Farmer harmer

Over 80% Indians not covered under health insurance: NSSO survey

Most people finance hospitalisation by digging into savings and borrowing

Air pollution: CSE releases agenda for Aam Aadmi Party government

Delhi cannot face another winter as severely polluted as this, says the non-profit

Wavering

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

Maharshtra mulls making sale of gutkha non-bailable offence

Penal action proposed against consumers to ensure strict implementation of gutkha ban

UN felicitates Odisha for its disaster management model during Phailin

State first in Southeast Asia to get a thumbs up by the international body

Look who's invested in ITC

Insurance companies, Indian government are the mainstay of the tobacco-driven company

The right call?

Norms to curb mobile radiation do little to assuage people’s fear

Drums, cymbals and stories

Kaushik Das Gupta attends a festival that celebrates endangered stories

Environmental clearances

Clearances to coal mining projects has been a priority for Narendra Modi government

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

To industry's tune

RTI assessment

Phailin: crop loss assessed at Rs 2,300 crore

Families in severely affected villages to get rations and cash assistance

Five-in-one vaccine now available for free in Delhi healthcare facilities

Activists concerned about deaths caused by pentavalent vaccine

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Largesse too little

Pesticides lobby’s coup

Krishi Bhavan supports endosulfan companies; Kerala protests

Ban on pesticides: Plea in Supreme Court alleges restriction on reduced number of chemicals to protect companies

Next hearing on April 28; SC seeks reasons for the decision from Centre

World Health Day 2020: How nutrition gardens helped tribals in Odisha's Nagada

Tribals in Nagada suffer from severe malnutrition, other health issues

Budget 2015 proves a dampener for climate action

Finance minister talks about Clean Energy Fund, but forgets crop insurance