Patent paradox
Developing countries may get trapped by the brazen and unabashedly faulty bio patenting model that a US firm is flaunting
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MONEYMAKERS
TELEMARKETING MARVELS: Want to do a market survey before buying a new car? All you have to do is press a few buttons - on the remote control of your television. The UK-based Viewcall electronic
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Catching water where it falls
A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum
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Alimentary cases
A battle royal rages in the courts of UK as two nondescript environmentalists take on a giant
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MONEYMAKERS
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the
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Thin ice
A debate on Earth's last virgin territory heats up as multinationals continue to stampede towards the Antarctic
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"Biodiversity treaty is misleading the Third World"
A known a crusader for traditional Indian medicine. P Pushpangadan, who completed his Ph.D from Aligarh University, is currently the director of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute tgbri in Thiruvananthapuram. The institute has championed
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Scientists under a microscope
A department of science and technology report reveals that India's boffins are academically a lax lot
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Powered by waste
...or how to use garbage to generate power
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The great sham
Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the Delhi government resorts to a five day charade to clean up the Yamuna
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'Mass housing is a self defeating concept'
SUHASINI AYER GUIGAN is an architect concerned with issues of rural development and habitat. Holding a degree in architecture from the Delhi based School of Planning and Architecture, she has spent nearly a decade working on earth construction, and is cur
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Cooking disaster, for free
West Delhi hutment residents use methane emanating from an abandoned garbage dump for fuel
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Greens scream blue murder
Environmentalists and Democrats in America gear up to tackle the Republican "onslaught" on landmark protection laws
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Piqued by piracy
The US is hopping mad about Chinese outfits copying and selling American products
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A diverse bill
It is important to generate a national debate on the Biological Diversity Bill
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Dreams in jute
Jute fibre is making a comeback in new and innovative ways
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Stretch the small horizon
A recent survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industries has proposed sweeping policy changes in the smallscale sector to enhance its viability in the export market
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Can business be responsible
Call it paranoia or plain silliness. But it is amazing. The Centre for Science and Environment cse has been studying gas pricing in the country to assess how environmentally acceptable fuels can be
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We the regulators
Last fortnight, I said I did not know how the two Cola giants would respond to our study on pesticides in soft drinks. Now I do. I have learnt how global corporations deal with public concerns.
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The most serious news
Each time I visit the us I am struck by the lack of serious news on its many television channels and newspapers. The media here clearly follows the dictum if it bleeds it leads . In other words,