Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …

Sops for devil’s engines

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

Environment ministry favours tiger safari in buffer zones

Says will help in conservation efforts

Will future cities be friendly?

Urbanisation is not just about infrastructure but also social cohesion

Concerns over Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

Rs 13,000 crore to be spent on green India mission in next 5 years

Parliamentary Committee on Estimates pulls up Centre for failing to increase forest cover in the country

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Maharashtra repeals Urban Land Ceiling Act

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

This is what Lavasa looks like

101 suicides in two months; is Marathwada the new Vidarbha?

Most suicides among orchard farmers, say observers

Delhi’s dream of clean air goes up in smoke

One more goes down

Can we afford not to change?

Bringing order to streets

Centre legalises street vending and gives the profession its due respect. But accommodating vendors is a challenge

COVID-19 exposes fault lines in peri-urban areas

Lack of sanitation awareness prevails at a greater extent here; it is unclear how COVID-19-centric awareness campaigns will influence behavioral …

Clear as air

The grim picture of a lung scarred by pollution is of no shock value today. An ailing populace continues to throw up a phlegm of protests. To …

Goa must grow...but how?

On January 26, 2007, the government of Goa withdrew its newest blueprint for the development of the state, called the Regional Plan 2011. …

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies