Over 80,000 children in Madhya Pradesh are trapped in the clutches of starvation. The situation is so stark that even if they are saved, they may go blind due to acute

The UPA government appers to be haltingly moving towards yet another electoral promise in the Common Minimum Programme: the enactment of the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill,

Rajasthasn's biggest daily, Rajasthan Patrika, has broken the stereotype that a newspaper is soley driven by profit. It has motivated 1,50,000 people to voluntarily clean up 385 discarded traditional

NGOs in Bihar's Rohtas and Sasaram districts have embezzled huge public funds in the name of

Construction labourers can finally lok forward to getting modern cooking amenities and health facilities as a legally enforceable right while working on mega construction projects. The Union

Defying contractors and bureaucrats, a village collective in Rajasthan around the Arvari river basin has built a parallel government to preserve its water, trees and

The largest railway network in Asia, ferrying millions of passengers across the country everyday, is also the biggest littering agency dumping tonnes of toxic waste, plastic, aluminium fils, filth

The recent floods have made the region around Gujarat's 400-km Golden Corridor of industrial estates dangerous to live in. Deadly effluents from thousands of industries are flowing into

After Plchimada, Tirunelveli is raising a banner of revolt. The people of this southern town of Tamil Nadu are up in arms against the setting up of a bottling plant of the South India Bottling

According to a study by the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), greenhouse gas discharge from Orissa adds to 3 per cent of global emissions. The study says the industries and power

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