The flood situation in Assam worsened today with over 27,000 people affected in more than 70 villages across the state. Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said in its daily flood report
Inhabitants of a poor Calcutta slum learn about hygiene and health care from their kids. Somewhere in an obscure corner of the city of joy, a group of boys and girls are rehearsing a play. It's
Health experts are flummoxed by Sushma Swaraj's moral turn on AIDS awareness. Given the latest shift in the Union health ministry's AIDS programme away from condom centric campaigns the groups most
Poverty, drought and now the heat plunge Andhra in a macabre dance of death. It's not just nature's fury. And Chandrababu Naidu's claims of a cyber revolution and march towards a Swarna Andhra
Fifty-five lions have died in Gir in the last two years. According to Sanat Chauhan, former principal chief conservator of forests, "many more lions are likely to die given that the 1,400 sq km
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in
Female foeticide isn't rural India's original sin anymore. The country's urban centres are as cruel, if not more. More recent data and analysis is now bringing out the fact that, contrary to
The UNDP Human Development Report figures are damaging, but inconsistencies remain. In India, the way a child grows up, or whether she grows up at all, depends on where she's born. Census figures say
A lush forest turns a giant golf course overnight? Well, on paper, it's already happened. The Ajit Warty committee appointed by the Maharashtra government to chart out the development of Mumbai's
Soil degradation forces the country's granary to look at alternative crops. A million hectares under paddy-wheat cultivation are to be replaced by alternative crops in the next five
The state's hyped employment scheme is in doldrums. But no one thinks it's time for serious
