What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the People s Budget ?

Wildlife project under review

Or, will they be mere transit points?

In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. Michael Lewis argues this science also imported for decades after came in baggage tainted with skewed prioriti

What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the Union government to set up an expert group to redefine poverty and, consequently, reassess the percentage of Ind

Are the Bawarias of Rajasthan hunters, nomads or a tribe of criminals?

Over the past few months, Rachel Biderman Furriela a Brazil based lawyer and activist has been punching the keys of her laptop furiously. She is busy acknowledging congratulatory mails from her network of friends an international group of lawyers wo

Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa

It took just five votes to shake the very edifice of the International Whaling Commission IWC . Voting 25 20 in favour of setting up a controversial committee, the North dominated anti whaling faction drastically altered the IWC mandate from that of sc