Journey to save a river
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has started a 1,300-km yatra (journey) "to bind the valley together" against "destructive development". The yatra is an important step in the NBA's effort to augment
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Too much at stake
Four oil companies Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum with industry and scientific institutions
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Battling against tobacco
Guatemala is exploring the possibility of legal action against multinational cigarette firms, the first such move by a country
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Saved from the axe
Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.
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Wising up after the quake
In the wake of the Latur earthquake, to make sure it doesn't get caught on the wrong foot once again, the Central government plans to set up a network of seismic stations. The Rs 100 crore technology
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Breathing easy
A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum
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USA faces up to the biodiversity challenge
The US President reiterates that the one world, one environment theme is the only way to protect the planet.
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Pumping iron
The training of women in the maintenance of hand pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply programme from sinking.
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Chaotic response to calamity
The killer quake struck unexpectedli in the still of the night. Entire villages were flattened and thousands perished. Though rescue and relief were prompt, they were uncoordinated. And, several people just stood around watching
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A shaky future for the poor
When the houses in the Latur villages came crashing down, death, as usual, chose its social classes. The earthquake spared the thatched huts of the poorest and the cement and concrete houses of the
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Drowning in waste
The flooding of the market with recycled materials, coupled with the disinterest shown by small businesses, has created problems for Seattle's model recycling programme.
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New light on water disinfection
With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.
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Water poisoning has officials in a tizzy
As confusion reigns over how municipal water in three Agra localities was contaminated, self appointed social workers are trying to exploit the tragedy.
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Mean streets
GRUESOME highway accidents are so common in India that they are routinely relegated to the inside pages of newspapers. But the month of March took, as it were, the cake (see pages 18-19): in the
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NGOs left holding the baby
The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary
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Research to hardsell
The industry throws its mantle to the Indian Institutes of Technology
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Standing their own
The Sindh Wildlife Department is opposing oil exploration in a national park in Pakistan
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Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed
Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh feel sold out to mills Frustration is growing among sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh. First private sugar mills refused to begin crushing and now the Lucknow
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Paying a high price
Forty thousand dams have rendered 60 million people homeless the worldover
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The new order
T R Balu has to become more important for the environment than judges of the Supreme Court