Madhya Pradesh solar energy tariff hits new low with Rs 5.05 per unit

The rate is even lower than the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s benchmark of Rs 6.86 per kWh

Peepal ki bhaji

Debt in half: Left or right

Massive fire at Union Carbide compound, gas victims panic due to toxic air

Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is where gas leaked in 1984, killing thousands of people and disabling millions  

Saviours turn killers

First rights

Come clean

A shoddy cleanup exercise in Bhopal has left residents only angrier

Madhya Pradesh second state to have plan for antimicrobial resistance

The move will encourage other states to develop their own plans, which in turn, will help in tackling antimicrobial resistance on the national level

Meet the Baigas

Baigas are a central Indian tribe who recently received habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act

Creative conundrum

Technology alone won't deliver smart cities. That would require innovative design and creativity in solving problems

Around 40 lakh farmers of Madhya Pradesh waiting for PM-Kisan’s first instalment

Data mismatch due to confusion regarding Aadhar card and bank account numbers were found to be the cause of confusion in many cases

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

Why has tendu leaf revenue not reached forest dwellers even after 50 years?

Tendu leaves, primarily used to wrap beedis, provide the largest seasonal income and employment to 7.5 million forest-dwelling people in 12 states

PDS, public infrastructure helping Adivasis of Chhattisgarh, MP live with dignity despite lower income: PRADAN Report

Malnutrition, gender discrimination, lack of landholdings and education & declining forest produce major concerns  

Simply Put: The Kerala Model

Can Bio-CNG click: DTE reportage on the coming of age tech

A 3-part series on what is Bio-CNG and what are its advantages as well as challenges

Power of knowledge

Organically inclined

Migration malaria

How human migration spreads malaria to new areas

No work, no vote

Madhya Pradesh govt in denial mode after 7-month-old dies due to malnutrition

The girl from Sheopur district was admitted in a centre for malnutrition treatment; in the past hundreds of children have died in several …

Cheetah relocation: Wild cats likely to arrive Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno by end of August

Staff and authorities of Kuno National Park are struggling to keep leopards out of the 500-hectare enclosure made for the cheetahs

The cleanest cities of India: Indore tops the chart

Indore has also been ranked the cleanest city of India in Swachh Survekshan Surveys since 2017

Notes from the field: Rural transformation and MGNREGA

MGNREGA has been successful in Madhya Pradesh. Can the scheme also provide solutions for the current drought in the region?

MEF stumped

State governments badger the MEF to implement its own proposal of industrial plantations in degraded forests