The government has chosen to look at the problem from the wrong end of the looking glass, the survival end.

The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor.

At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana

Even States that claim to have impressive economic growth report severe under-nutrition and high infant mortality, particularly among their tribal populations.

At an anganwadi centre in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh.

STATE OF DENIAL

Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist.

Under-nutrition, as a

Female infanticide has declined in Tamil Nadu, but there is still an alarming decline of child sex ratio in many districts.

A people

A policy shift is evident as the Environment Minister seeks to drop the option of equal per capita entitlement of atmospheric commons.ONCE again, barely a month and a half after the Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Indian government

More testing has to be done on the new variety of brinjal and on any vegetable that may be in the process of being genetically modified.OVER three decades ago I was asked, as were other District Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners in the country, to help the agricultural officers in our districts to promote two new varieties of rice, which were called High Yielding Varieties, or HYV, among farmer

In keeping with the overall approach of an