End hand-holding: Let banks grow up
The RBI has reason to be concerned. Banks’ exposure to mutual funds (MFs) has more than trebled, from Rs 45,000…
Read MoreWorld Bank’s $1b loan for JNNURM to come with strings
A team from the World Bank will be in New Delhi soon to work out the nitty-gritties of a $1-billion…
Read MoreLife-saving early warning systems for droughts are focus at UN-backed meeting
With the frequency and severity of droughts likely to increase due to climate change, more than 60 scientists from all…
Read MoreCopenhagen talks heading towards agreement on new climate deal – UN
Talks under way at the historic United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, have entered the drafting phase towards…
Read MoreCorruption major impediment to advancing development, warn UN officials
Corruption kills development and is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the globally agreed targets to reduce poverty, hunger…
Read MoreWho owns the eggplant? by Latha Jishnu
As agriculture universities transform local varieties into genetically modified Bt brinjal, questions of ownership arise. Indians call it the brinjal.…
Read MorePrice rise needs check by Jayanthi Natarajan
Recently there has been considerable media discussion about the issue of rise in prices of essential commodities and the problem…
Read MoreReform the reformer by Sumit Mitra
The convulsions that have gripped the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) — India’s flagship city development programme —…
Read MoreDeclared Dead by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
The prime minister of Denmark, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is now calling for a “political declaration” at the Copenhagen climate change…
Read MoreMedha fears fake encounter
Social activist Medha Patkar has approached Governor M.C. Bhandare, apprehending fake encounter of the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh leader Nachika…
Read MoreSC lobs lottery ban query at Centre by Samanwaya Rautray
The Supreme Court today asked the central government to explain why lotteries shouldn’t be banned to save the poor from…
Read MoreManaging food prices
Even as reports pour in of a softening of food price futures, the spectre of food price inflation haunts households…
Read MoreSearching for harmony
DELEGATES turning up to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—known as the…
Read MoreGovt mulls changes in RTI Act by Dhananjay Mahapatra
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s recent request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from increasingly…
Read MoreThe great Bhopal whitewash by Sunil Jain
Worthies such as Ratan Tata who have been lobbying the government to go easy on Union Carbide Corporation (http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/5_27.pdf) would…
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