By simultaneously carrying out multiple development schemes in a village, can its all-round development be made more sustainable? The Uttam Gram program, in Haryana's Donkhera village, provides some answers. Shashank Devra reports.

An adult male tiger caught on a camera trap after a gap of 23 years suggests that ecosystem restoration activities in the Buxa tiger reserve may be working. With it comes fresh concerns about the relocation of forest villages. Nabarun Guha reports.

Kirthi Jayakumar's Game Changers is more than a collection of profiles of remarkable women, and not just joyful reading. It is an opportunity to learn the past and the present of the country in a more complete way, and understand the role women have always played in it, writes Raakhee Suryaprakash.

Vaccine policies involving denials of public entitlements fail to understand that many are unable to access the shots. Nor are they based on evidence-based science, public health practices and ethics. Such denials only disregard the dignity of people's lives in the most callous way imaginable. Sweta Dash reports.

Paddy farmers in Assam's Baksa district are selling their produce at well below the Minimum Support Price, which they find unreliable. The income from agriculture is inadequate, as a result, and they are forced to look for daily wage work. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports.

Odisha has the second highest number of reported cases of witch-hunting. Superstitious beliefs among the tribals are invariably made out to be the reason, but class and gender discrimination, as well as revenge, are often the real causes. Abhijit Mohanty reports.

From home and hearth, to employment, to disasters, women are bearing the brunt of the climate catastrophe, but are excluded from participating meaningfully in decisions that are impacting their lives more and more. Ambika Vishwanath speaks with Omair Ahmad.

Amidst the evident lack of women's presence in places of power, She Is brings together inspirational stories of persistent efforts by women to get there. Our hopes for development must be embedded in the lens of gender equality, writes Raakhee Suryaprakash.

Assam's tea growers, struggling under high production costs and low profit margins, have turned to growing agarwood, in the process helping to revive it from its endangered status. The state government too is encouraging growers to raise agarwood boundary plantations.

Plenty of women choose to study science and technology, but only a modest number of them are in long careers in these fields, and very few are making it to the top. Shikha Sharma reports on the numbers, the reasons, and some steps being taken.

The subsistence economy of lakhs of camel herders in Rajasthan has been hit hard in the last year. Even after the withdrawal of many travel restrictions, the demand for camel-derived products has not yet revived. Abhijit Mohanty reports.

Plenty of money has been spent widening roads, hoping that will reduce congestion. By now there is enough evidence against that. Instead, designing our cities for walking and cycling is a far better way rein in traffic, and is also imperative to fight climate change, says Madhav Pai.

Most rural women work on farms, but only one in six owns the land she works on. Succession laws have brought women on par with men when it comes to family property, but when it comes to inheriting agricultural land, discrimination still persists. Shikha Sharma reports.

There are several problems with the so-called 'carbon neutrality' pledges. These can only be understood properly if they are accompanied by details and given tight accounting norms. Additionally, high emitters should face stricter norms and earlier timelines, writes Rahul Tongia.

With its potential to supplement incomes of fishermen and other communities along the nation's long coastline, seaweed cultivation is gaining momentum. An added benefit is the potential to mitigate the loss of biodiversity in the oceans. Goa's first pilot farm is about to be launched.

We need to enable finance. At scale. We need to unclog the channels for big- and small-sized finance to reach sustainable destinations. These are the challenges, and the opportunities that India needs to capitalise on, and do so now, says Neha Kumar.

Inequalities in education, which were already very large, have been considerably worsened by the long closure. The effects will persist for many years to come. But this crisis is also an opportunity for renewal of the education system, say educators and development activists.

This sector is now an important part of the way many small businesses are funded. A clear framework for governing its operations is needed, and the lenders must embrace more effective self-regulation to balance the needs of borrowers with their goals, writes Harsh Shrivastava.

Habitats and corridors for wild elephants are shrinking due to other development priorities of the state. And local communities are growing angrier at the rising number of conflicts. Wildlife advocates say a number of conservation efforts are needed to stem this. Abhijit Mohanty reports.