Author(s): Soma Basu @sbasu_in , Sushmita Sengupta @ Jul 31, 2014 | From the print edition The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Soma Basu and Sushmita Sengupta travel with photographerVikas Choudhary from Kanpur to Varanasi, the river’s most polluted stretch, to understand why… Continue Reading →
City on trial Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan A housing complex in the catchment of Sukhna Lake will affect Chandigarh’s only water body (PHOTOGRAPHS: ANUPAM… Continue Reading →
Drained royally by MNCs Author(s): Latha Jishnu Jun 30, 2014 | From the print edition Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India NEWSPAPERS have leapt with delight on the statement by Maruti Suzuki India… Continue Reading →
Outsiders in their own land 1 Author(s): Soma Basu @sbasu_in May 15, 2014 | Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights Nirmal Singh, a farmer in Panandhro village, shows limestone in his farmland (Photo: Soma… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Chandra Bhushan Mar 15, 2014 Government plans to set up four large-scale solar power plants that will cost a whopping `1.2 lakh crore. Will they serve millions of energy poor? The bigger the better seems to be the mantra of Central government ministries these days…. Continue Reading →
Author(s): M Suchitra Mar 15, 2014 | Compromises on Polavaram; agrees to exclude villages facing submergence from new state People protest against the Polavaram project in V R Puram block in Khammam district. All 42 revenue villages in this block will be totally submerged… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Sabita Parida Feb 15, 2014 | Society thinks women do not want to own land. That’s where it is wrong Sabita Parida In popular iconography, a farmer is a man with a moustache, wearing a turban and holding a plough… Continue Reading →
Mission possible Author(s): Jitendra , Alok Gupta , Sayantan Bera Jan 31, 2014 | The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Bangladesh and… Continue Reading →
Flawed legislation Author(s): Kundan Pandey , DOWN TO EARTH Dec 31, 2013 | From the print edition Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act is silent on patients’… Continue Reading →
Sugandh Juneja [1] Issue Date: 2013-12-15 Iron ore mines in Goa also concealed facts to get environmental clearance, shows report SEVERAL mines in Goa fudged data in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) to get clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment… Continue Reading →
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