Home grown power

More and more villages are opting for affordable, manageable micro-hydel projects

Panchayat minister wants control of urban local bodies

Farmers destroy DuPont’s GM rice

Demand Karnataka be declared a transgenic-free state

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

Kerala Knowledge Inc

Kerala shows the way by going for a decentralised method to protect its unique biodiversity

Over the edge

Is Cuddalore's industrial area a Bhopal in the making? Yes, say villagers

Andhra Pradesh government unveils new sand policy

Rural business hubs in India gear up for 846 products

846 products slated for rural business hubs

It's 121.92 m now

Narmada dam gets boost, faces opposition

How women seized NREGA

Court reins in Goa coast violations

Panchayats pulled up for inaction

Embrace of an unforgettable conservation crusade lingers on

Impacts of Chipko are still visible in the state after four decades.

The development laboratory

Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two

Why liquidate our future?

Cabinet nod to joint parliamentary committee recommendations

Access to justice curbed

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

A village that took on miners

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Civil society & politics

Water wars

Panchayat fights to retain what is left of Saligao's groundwater

Panchayats to get poverty alleviation funds

GM field trials now need panchayat nod