AIDS drug to be marketed soon
An Indian firm has developed a drug that delays the onset of AIDS and reduce the cost of treatment.
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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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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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Is the Tehri dam safe?
A crack has appeared on the mountainface forming part of the Tehri dam reservoir. Will such cracks effect the dam project in case of seismic activity? How safe is the site? How serious are the implications?
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Dream that's failed
The Mud Village Society was conceived as a "habitat in consonance with the total ecosystem". But the highly touted project may never be implemented.
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Sustaining boredom
CSD has become a stratospheric environment in which no wisdom gets injected from the perspective of the poor <br>
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The melting pot
You never thought it could happen. For the first time, geneticists have combined genes from different species
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Central Institute of Brackish water Aquaculture
Advent of commercial shrimp aquaculture has made more shrimp available to the processing sector, enabling it to make better use of plant capacity and diversify into value-added products. CIBA in its efforts at development of standardized technologies for brackishwater aquaculture has already made a mark both at the marginal farmers' and corporate sector levels.
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Press Statement on bauxite mining by the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) through Vedanta
<p>It is a press statement by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment & Forests, Jairam Ramesh, on bauxite mining by the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) through Vedanta.
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An eyewash
Rajasthan s so called solar power project
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Villagers in Himachal Pradesh block hydel project
A local deity of villages in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh recently ordained that the construction of a hydroelectric power project should be stopped. Bowing to the divine importunations of
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Costly wait: fuel worth Rs 150cr burnt at checkposts
New Delhi: Fuel worth Rs 100-150 crore is wasted on highways annually due to inter-state and intra-state checkpost delays and elaborate checking of documents, a recent study by logistics major Transport Corporation of India (TCI) and IIM-Calcutta has found. The joint study also claimed bad road condition resulted in reduction of average truck speed to only 20 kmph.
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Hydro generation not tapped for 15 years: CAG
BHUBANESWAR: While the State is reeling under power crisis, the Government has not taken any proactive measures during the last 15 years to add hydro generation capacity despite huge potential.
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Cess mess at Tarapur plant
MPCB serves show cause notice to nuclear plant for non compliance with environmental laws
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Payback time
It may no longer be a losing battle. Amid much protests, a lawsuit filed by a group of Ecuadorians against the us-based oil major ChevronTexaco Corporation has been shifted to an Ecuadorian court
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Saving the Wonder
Agra's Taj Mahal will soon heave a sigh of relief and breathe clean air, it seems. In the first week of March Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, announced a 10-point
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We can t stop the fire
up to three per cent of worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, the major global warming gas, could be emanating from the natural fires that are rampaging through coalfields in northern China. The