The spear pierceth
Irian Jaya, in Indonesia, is witnessing the descretion of its rainforests by a mining firm; an oft repeated story, one would think, but the implications are no less frightening
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Waste worry
Kerala is finding it difficult to dispose its waste
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Insurance companies among top 10 shareholders of ITC Limited
<div class="field field-type-text field-field-intro"> <p><em>Insurance companies, Indian government are the mainstay of the tobacco-driven company</em></p> </div> <p>It is fairly well known that ITC
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Killer disease
The world is getting fatter, sicker
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Municipality blamed for Delhi water poisoning
Municipal authorities in Delhi deny they were responsible for the deaths of eight people caused by contaminated water
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MONEYMAKERS
ALTERNATIVE FUEL: An Indian company, Motor Medics (India) Ltd (MIL) and a Canadian firm, Alternative Fuel Systems (AFS), have signed an agreement to sell and later manufacture systems which
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MONEYMAKERS
CANCER VACCINE: Researchers at the Kanazawa University and Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy in Japan claim to have developed a cancer vaccine that boosts the body's capacity to build anti-cancer immune
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Early warnings
A new test will determine if an adolescent faces the risk of substance abuse in the future
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How enabling is ICT?
In February, 100 odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of information and communication technologies ICT for development. Tucked away in the heart of south Maharashtra s sugar
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Soft quarries
If soil quarrying is a threat in the <i>terai</i>, mining poses huge hazards in the hills of Kumaon. Soapstone or talc and magnesite quarries have been taking over commons for over two decades, depriving local people of large tracts of the forestland, pasture, watersheds and farming land.<br>
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EC quota drives Germans bananas
A plan to restrict import of bananas from Latin American countries is being opposed tooth and nail by the Germans.
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Landmarks on the Chipko trail
1973 • Chipko is born when villagers of Mandal, near Gopeshwar, led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, stop contractors of an Allahabad-based sports goods company,
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MONEYMAKERS
DAM FAILURE: Boliden, a Canadian mining company, blamed falling metal prices and costs associated with a dam rupture for the company's second-quarter loss. Pre-tax losses were $52.1 million compared
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Kerala farmers grow vanilla for profit
Thampi Thomas, an advocate turned planter of Kolenchery in south Kerala, sold raw vanilla beans for Rs 500 per kilogramme kg in 1999. During the current season, he got Rs 3,750 per kg for the produce. No single plant in his 3 hectare ha organic farm h
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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'I don't expect largescale policy initiatives in the environmental sector'
JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington based World Resource Institute WRI and is the co chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development. Lash came to New Delhi in November 1994 to release The Second India Revisited, a WRI study exami
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MONEYMAKERS
SIDE-EFFECTS: The France-based Roche Holding AC, has planned to withdraw its drug for high blood pressure, Posicor, as its interaction with other medicines is poor. Long term clinical trials have
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All eyes on Akatsuki Maru
As the world follows the Akatsuki Maru and its 1.3 tonnes of plutonium oxide on its controversial trans oceanic journey from France to Japan, Tokyo has to decide whether it will continue its trade in this highly toxic material.