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Modi govt's decision to bar Greenpeace activist's travel is silly, malafide

The lack of new age regulations for transparency is providing a protective cloak to those in government to act arbitrarily or with malafide

'If there was a Jayanti tax, PM Modi can get it probed'

Interview with Jayanti Natarajan

Reforming FCI or cutting back food security?

The Shanta Kumar Committee on restructuring FCI has suggested the reach of the National Food Security Act be curtailed to 40 per cent of the population

US-India bonhomie missing on climate change

Delhi concedes one climate issue on Obama's agenda

PM's climate change council discusses emission reduction in farm sector

PMO ordered 60 changes to green clearances, environment ministry delivered on most

Some others may need legislative amendments to laws

Five coal blocks in Chhattisgarh might see land conflict

Since it came to power in May 2014, the NDA government has been working to do away with the need for such consent from tribal village councils

Gadkari caused 'psychological' damage to MGNREGS: Ministry

Workdays under the scheme in 2014 crashed to less than half of previous year's, delay in fund transfers and payment to workers, says rural devt ministry report

Govt's land law revives lost order of sarkar raj

The ordinance has returned near absolute power of discretion in land acquisition, except in tribal areas, into the hands of the bureaucracy yet again

Clauses on land return, action against officials diluted

Forest land: Govt finalising dilution of tribal rights

The tribal affairs ministry has drafted revised rules on tribal consent which are now being reviewed by the environment, forests and climate change ministry

250 conflicts over land acquisition recorded in 2013 and 2014

Most conflicts arise from government takeover of land, often on behalf of private investors: Report

Tribals worse off, facing alienation, says high-level panel report

Govt suppresses report recommending radical reforms to improve their socio-economic status as it goes against Centre's rapid industrialisation agenda

Inviolate forest policy: Pared down, in limbo

As it auctions coal blocks, the government fails to implement even the severely diluted policy

Lima climate change talks avert a disaster

A lame-duck call to action helps safeguard every country's red lines, enabling all to argue again in much harder tussle in future

India's gain at Lima: A more united front of developing nations

Also, a reminder of the binding force and negotiating power of LMDC grouping, with China very much there, too

Lima climate talks on brink of collapse, extended by 24 hours

Near-zero commitment on finance from developed world, negotiation process angers developing nations

Lima climate change talks: The endgame after a leaked agreement

Talks on a precipice, developing countries unhappy

Leaked secret Lima draft decision: The real reason why G77 group got the climate talks put on hold

Draft heavily biased against developing countries, G77 assessed

Uncertainty looms over Lima climate change meeting

Differences littered over more than 100 pages to be resolved in 48 hours