Together we stand
Will the National Alliance of People's Movements be a whiff of Fresh air blowing in winds of change, reforming the way the country views development?
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INDIA
• As per the directive of the Supreme Court, the first green bench in the judicial history of the country sat at the Calcutta High Court n June 3. The bench will deal exclusively with
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"Thou shalt inform "
Eleven years after the Bhopal gas catastrophe, the Government of India finally recognises communities' right to know about neighbourhood industrial operations
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Waterfront Cauvery
Findings of a panel report on crop conditions in the Cauvery river basin and the delta may suggest water pricing as one of the remedial measures to solve the region's problems
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Call of the wild
The magic wand of wildlife research is literally bringing to life that sleeping beauty called extinct biodiversity the supposedly disappeared species of yore
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INDIA
• The municipal corporation of Shimla has finalised a Rs 7.5 crore integrated waste management plan for the town. Under the plan, separate arrangement will be made for the disposal of solid
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Forests of global contention
The South"s determined efforts to scuttle the forest convention that the North was adamant on pushing through was a major triumph. A blow-by-blow account of the crucial, often tricky, negotiation
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The water war
The watermark offailure on the Government of India's mantle glares everybody in theface, as two warring riparian states flex their muscles in the absence of an effective national water management policy
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"Nature is not loved in India"
HARISH GAONKAR took his childhood passion for butterflies seriously enough to carve out an illustrious career in lepidopterology for himself. A polyglot, Gaonkar prefers illustrating his own work His interests seem to reflect a rare blend ofscien
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Shameless India
We have to remember that we have no choice but to demand an effective climate convention
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Indian farmers can take on the multinationals
Sharad Joshi, the well known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.
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Run of the mill
The Tarawera river in New Zealand was once an abundant source of food for the locals and the region's wildlife, but today, it is known as the black drain, thanks to the tonnes of toxic effluents
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INDIA
• The Goldman Environmental Foundation, US, recently awarded the annual environmental prize for Asia, worth US $75,000 to M C Mehta, a Supreme Court lawyer who has won about 40 landmark
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Plastic leaders
Delhi politicians have always tried to scuttle moves to end the polythene bag menace
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INDIA
• India was one of the signatories to the draft international convention on liability and compensation for damages in connection with the carriage of hazardous and rundous substances by sea,
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Autopsy of a betrayal
The Prime Minister has exposed his political immaturity on a matter as grave as the Sardar Sarovar Project and the bureaucracy has forced his feet into his mouth
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"There is no fish"
The poisoning of India's rivers has left nothing for traditional fisherfolk
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Oceanic disaster ahead
The latest findings of the Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (COMAPS) offer us a gloomy picture about the health of the seas. The COMAPs has identified 25 locations of "hotspots"
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No more mess!
Public faith in governmental programmes being what they are, no wonder that the newly elected Thiruvananthapuram city corporation's announcement about cleaning up the city fetched no cheers.
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INDIA
• In a pathbreaking research, scientists from Kumaon University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh, recently identified potential biological control agents for malaria in two parasitic fungi