Loan sharks lay debt trap
The Last Shirt Maker in Ndola
The Last Shirt Maker in Ndola
Mathrubhumi
On December 23, 2003, the Indonesian government gave access to five un organisations
Punjab is at a more advanced stage of development than most other Indian states. However, the remarkable achievements of the state have not been equitable. Amidst prosperity, pockets of deprivation remain among sections and areas.
www.ruralnaukri.com proclaims itself as a Haat where buyers and sellers of rural talent meet . But if you think it is entirely to do with rural India, hold on. The site offers social or agribusiness placement services, development consultancy and will
The need of the day to save biodiversity
J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats
From a resource rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey that is driving its inhabitants to go away from their roots a fact apparent during a public hearing on distr
A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty
The Rajya Sabha s clearance of the tobacco bill has attracted an ad from the industry criticising the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products near educational institutions
The <i>saperas</i> snake charmers of Delhi loive in a unique colony called Mollarbandhgaon. This community, located next to the Badarpur thermal power station, is known locally as sapera basti community of snake charmers. The community has been living
About non profit organisations NPOs , also thought non governmental
Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. The Union government usually responds by complaining about truant rains and doles out funds in an arbitrary man
Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management
During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have become a problem of worldwide proportions.
The <i>karez</i> system could solve the country's water problems
Besides being largely impractical, the land for land approach to the rehabilitation debate is patronising, to say the least
This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the joint forest management (JFM) programme. The beginnings of this initiative can be dated to the early 1970s, when people had just begun
Court orders salaries for Valmiki Tiger Reserve staff
despite stiff opposition from the greens, the parliament of Norway cleared the nation's first petroleum development project in the Arctic Barents Sea. It was passed by a 75-25 vote recently. The