HEALTHY POLICY

Killer highway

ECOFRIENDLY PLAN

COVID-19 fatality: India average 1 death in 51 cases, but 127 districts fare worse

Data gaps, under reporting suggest pandemic is more acute than Centre, states make it to be

Customary and religious laws are impeding progress towards women’s health in Nigeria

The country has the second-largest HIV epidemic in the world; its women make up more than half of people living with the disease  

Don't quit at Quito: Follow the health pulse of the New Urban Agenda

The new report, 'Health as the pulse of new urban agenda', released by the WHO in Quito, has outlined the guiding health principles that should …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 14, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

CSR: Is India Inc spending responsibly?

Companies can bring meaningful changes in society through the huge Rs 13,624 crore corporate social responsibility funds

If sanitation is treated as a community problem, we can make something happen for very little money

Just like a better iPhone is not the solution to poor telecom connectivity, sanitation cannot be solved by a smart, well-designed product, sold …

Cast away

After being at the receiving end of both militants and the state government, Kashmir's village heads are now threatening to boycott next year's …

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

What is causing food inflation

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

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

A new planning commission or an advisory body?

Indications are that the National Development Reforms Commission that will replace the Planning Commission will not have financial allocation powers

Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system

Simply put: Delhi Master's Plan

Lawsuit over bike lane in New York

Most say it calms traffic, some claim threatens pedestrians’ safety

AFRICA

Clean air at any cost

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

The goal of family planning programmes is not to hit population targets but to empower women so they can choose the number of children they will …

India is moving at jet speed, people should be able to move too

1 in 4 men and every second woman in India are physically inactive; can Indian construct cities which are creators of health, environment and equity?

Tamil Nadu district climate change missions: Is it really decentralised governance?

Climate change governance at the local / district level should be collaborative, flexible, strategic and reflective, rather than a bureaucrat-…

A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY

The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …

Greening a state

Himachal Pradesh chief minister has broken all bureaucratic shackles and initiated eco-friendly programmes in the state