Shot to birth

A recently-developed Indian birth control vaccine is being debated to death

CHINA

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

UNITED NATIONS

COASTLINE CONSERVATION

Plans gone awry

New measure for urban poverty

A standard and simple exclusion method has been evolved to determine BPL families

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Dalit-adivasi agenda for inclusion of SC, ST rights in election manifestos

Kerala launches an on-line campaign on dalit and adivasi concerns

Harmful combo drugs flood market

Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them

Commons: Local bodies must take lead

There is a pronounced lacuna in the governance and regulations of urban commons

In my city, without my car

From an object of desire, cars will turn into an asset of shared mobility

Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

Speeding towards ecological catastrophe

Unplanned development

Going Dutch

Biodiversity strategy plan

What states stand to gain from food security law

An estimate of the population that will benefit from the food programme

India takes cue from China; to mine rare-earths

Will add two research vessels for the mining 

Ghana wants fewer polluting old cars on the road. But it’s going about it the wrong way

Africa has long been considered a destination for used vehicles

China

Save Sunderbans drive

Weighing the cost

Goa will become the first state in the country to adopt national resource accounting

BRAZIL

My village, their plan

CII to develop rural business hubs; villages clueless