Death in the pit
Late in the night of September 26, water from the Katri nullah (canal), flowing past the Jharia coal fields, Dhanbad, breached an embankment I entered 2 mines, after it had inun a nearby
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Not a cakewalk
Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers
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Mean model
The modalities of the model much acclaimed Kerala Model cannot survive long on self denial
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Freedoms of two different worlds
The Shuria Committee's "revolutionary" suggestions on revertihg tribal areas back to decentralised Gram Raj systems is unlikely to be accepted by the bureaucracy, says RAHUL
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Gloom and the glamour town
Stereotyping and labelling of things and process is a practice of comfort: it gives the mind the luxury of having little to exercise itself over. This is more evident in the way people normally
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INDIA
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research will 'set up 500 new centres through institution-village linkage for transferring technology to farmers. This was stated recently by P Das,
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THE GREEN AGENDA
The key points adopted by Alliance 90 to address certain vital issues
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Healthy yoghurt
A new kind of fibre rich yoghurt not only tickles the gourmet palates, but also promises boosts to healthcare
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Bamboo musings
Although termed "forest weed" or "the poor man's timber" bamboo's potential may satisfy modernity's growing needs
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Sanctuary saga
A recent investigation into the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary lends support to the boundary reduction exercise by the state government
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Doubts sown
Will new deforestation fund management system work?
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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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Gandhigram Kachchh Taking Loans to harvest Water
This village in Mandvi taluka of Gujarat's Kachchh district has embarked on rainwater harvesting and wm quite recently. For the past 10-12 years, the residents have been facing a drinking water
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The rich are enjoying themselves at the expense of poor people's health
<font class='UCASE'>Karen E Smoyer</font> of the University of Alberta, Canada, has been working on the impact of poor environment on the weaker sections of society. During her recent visit to Delhi she spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Lian Chawii </font>
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The wise men of Hindostan
Even India has a living tradition of recycling its paper and banking on non wood fibre sources
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Powered by waste
...or how to use garbage to generate power
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"Every ninth baby here suffers brain damage"
A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed at providing succour to the teeming massess In the disease afflicted areas of the Aral Sea basin. Starting with being an obstetrician and gyn
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Relevance to India
While countries with comparatively low particulate pollution are concerned, the Indian administration is complacent
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Jinxed dam
A fresh snag hounds the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project
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Brotherhood of greens
The desolation around Udaipur in Rajasthan is giving way to vegetation through the efforts of cooperative societies