'Drought in the 1990s was essentially the drought of a poor India.''This 2016 drought is of a richer and more water-guzzling India.''The severity and intensity of the drought is not about lack of......
Khap panchayats oppose marriage in same gotra to control landholdings, writes Richard Mahapatra It was a season of sons-in-law in Haryana. In October, the Congress-ruled state government scrambled......
Already reeling from recurring droughts and declining productivity of staple crops, farmers are turning to short-duration vegetable crops. Thanks to this, India has become the second largest......
The environment ministry has proposed to offer wasteland available with it to investors through multi-stakeholder partnership. The move, which has been keenly promoted by the paper industry but......