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Finding a solution to chromium pollution in the Sukinda valley
- 14/11/2002
- - Pollution
  - Mining
  - Minerals
  - Health Effects
  - Research
  - India
  - Orissa (Odisha)
Protecting the nation's patents

V K GUPTA , director, National Institute of Science Communication NISCOM , tells VIBHA VARSHNEY how they set about building the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library TKDL . Gupta is hopeful that TKDL will vastly reduce recurrence of patent fiascos of
- 30/10/2002
Shallow pledges

The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions
- 30/10/2002
Malaria

Breakthroughs in malaria research may well go the way of the other diseases of the poor
- 30/10/2002
Rivers of discord

Why is everything important reduced to a dramatic farce in our country? Take the Cauvery imbroglio. The issue is serious and important. Namely how will states, regions and people share increasingly
- 30/10/2002
Takeover threat

STATE OF THE WORLD 2002 (US $15.95), VITAL SIGNS 2002 (US $14.95); ECO-ECONOMY: BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR THE EARTH, 2001 (US $14.95) . Lester R Brown; THE EARTH POLICY READER . Lester R. Brown, Janet
- 30/10/2002
Big brother

WSSD clearly illustrated the hatred of the US bullying tactics
- 30/10/2002
Biomonitors

Indiscriminate pesticide use kills birds in Malda
- 30/10/2002
Power em

More power for villages and people will ensure better governance and less corruption
- 30/10/2002
- - Legislation
  - Panchayats
  - Gram Sabhas
  - India
  - Kerala
  - Madhya Pradesh
  - Maharashtra
Democracy or dependance

Will the New Partnership for African Development NEPAD be able to deliver on its promises?
- 14/10/2002
Forest scraps

Battles over forest rights are nothing new. Neither are flawed policies and distrust
- 14/10/2002
- - Forest Resources
Field report

Bt cotton farmers in Karnataka are an insecure and confused lot, and neither the government, nor Mahyco or the anti Mahyco groups are any help at all
- 14/10/2002
- - Pesticides
  - Cotton
  - Farmers
  - Genetic Resources
  - India
  - Karnataka
Just hot air

NEPAD falls short on deliverables though it is heavy on promises
- 14/10/2002
On the dotted line

India s decision to ratify the Biosafety Protocol is meaningless unless domestic laws are tightened
- 14/10/2002
- - Food Adulteration
  - Genetic Engineering
Knowledge doctrines

What has President George Bush s international strategy paper released this fortnight, have to do with the British government sponsored report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights?
- 14/10/2002
Trade might is not right

What's wrong with global negotiations today?
- 14/10/2002
Television had promised rain

RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration
- 14/10/2002
Supercede capital

JOEL KOVEL , Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in Annandale, New York, is best known as the Green Party s candidate in the 2000 elections for nomination as US president. Among other things, he speaks of eco socialism, ecological inte
- 29/09/2002
GM aid

Impasse over biotechnology offers no solution to the world s hungry
- 29/09/2002
The World After

The World Summit on Sustainable Development wssd is over. The best thing about it is that it could have been much worse. As I write this with regret and bitterness about the idealism of times gone
- 29/09/2002