Transnational corporations are playing havoc with the lives of farmers

Disposable diapers are also bad for the environment

According to the 2001 census, about 43.5% of the households have been provided with electricity connections. This has gone up from 30.5% at the time of the 1991 census. The vast majority of rural population, however, still has no access to electricity and is dependent on kerosene lamps and lanterns. Jan-Mar 2005

Why Punjab prospers while Bihar gets poorer

Can Asia reduce poverty by half by 2015?

It is fortunate that people do not breathe data

Apply cosmetics with care. They contain carcinogens

The use of clean fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) instead of biomass-based fuels used for cooking in India would be beneficial in several ways. However, only about 33.6 million or 17.5% of all Indian homes use LPG as their primary cooking fuel, with 90% of rural homes still dependent on some form of biomass.

Investments in the Northeast fail to generate employment