Eight die of complicated form of dengue in Karnataka
Symptoms include low blood pressure, circulatory collapse and multiple organ failure
The next challenge
Bureaucrats pose a threat to the process
The impact
Kerala's income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs
A long haul
Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society
Sri Lanka grapples with elephant-human conflict
Worldwide legal wildlife trade increased by 2,000% since 1980
The trade has become highly unsustainable, a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …
Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit
New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action
LED bulbs to be available at Rs 10 instead of Rs 400
Government move aimed at making best use of the energy savings potential of LED lights
Last mile smile
Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes
Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job
Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment
Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning
The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives
Countries don’t report disease outbreaks soon enough: WHO chief Ghebreyesus
United Nations health organisation report on IHR implementation tabled in the 73rd World Health Assembly paints a mixed picture
Agartala to be first LED-illuminated city in northeastern India
Switch to LED-based street lighting is expected to save city corporation at least Rs 2 crore
World’s primary forests under threat
Study calls for international cooperation to arrest degradation of primary forests
Drastic step or careless move?
Bill allows regional rural banks to tap private capital
Chhatisgarh stalls PPP project to outsource diagnostic facilities
Centre refuses to provide funds; state government to review project
Banks expand arms, but not through branches
Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools
State of malnourished children
CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem
Global Eco Watch: ‘Strongest storm on Earth’ in 2020, slams into the Philippines
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
Mystery disease claims 13 lives in Bihar
All of them suffered from sore throat and nausea; autopsy of deceased inconclusive
Free trade will bind India
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 7, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Bridging the gap
Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has …
Innovative administrator
IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people
How rural kitchen pays
Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way