Where you are is what you are
IN PRESENTING the two films - Thar: Secrets of the Desert and The Village Republic - Anil Agarwal defines the basic concept of the series as studies in the organic relationship between
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Prosperity and Beyond
A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces challenges of a different kind today
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The genepool war
The recently concluded FAO meeting on the control over plant genetic resources, their conservation and sustainable use has left the North and the South bracing up for a major battle in the days to come
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Spreading the fire
The mandarins of the Indian science establishment have begun pushing the process of making the wonder fuel from water and herbs to its logical conclusion: patent and commercial exploitation, and the news has set the media aflame
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Fighting to break free
the political clout enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry is evident from the fact that very few attempts at taming the malpractices perpetrated by it have succeeded so far. The top 20
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Kerala's backwaters carry modern day brunt
Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care
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How sustainable a partner?
Industry s role in managing the dwindling freshwater resources of the world was highlighted at the sixth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development at New York. But countries of the South are hesitant about treating a social resource as a
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Losing the edge
As the world increasingly resorts to natural, plant derived cures for illnesses, the wealth of India's traditional medicinal systems lies virtually untapped because of poor research and development and marketing.
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Chernobyl impasse solved...
..but that is not the end of problems for Ukraine, as answers to important issues' like the future of workers and alternate energy and monetary resources are still to be found
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Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee
Although most of the dangers from unregulated and indiscriminate use of pesticides were brought into focus as early as in the year 1958 when the Government of India appointed a Commission of enquiry to suggest Inter-alia remedial measures following a number of deaths in Kerela and Madras (Tamil Nadu) by poisoning through the consumption of imported wheat contaminated by pesticide accidentally whic
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Kick ass for Bhopal
<p>United States President Barack Obama says he needs to know whose ass he should kick in the case of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He wants those responsible to pay for the damage — to the people and the environment.
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Making CETPs work
If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste
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CASE FILE: Peeragarhi
The way to shut a polluting industry and how it usually does not happen
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Oil firm on trial
Mauritius-based Galana Petroleum company has been put to trial in Madagascar for causing pollution. The trial began on November 16, 2004. Galana's oil refinery is charged with contaminating water
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In a dirty state
for India's highest growth state, this is bad news. The state government has finally admitted that Gujarat is the most polluted state in the country. According to the latest report of the Gujarat
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Pollution costs dear
a recent World Bank (WB) study has estimated that environmental damage costs the Andhra Pradesh (AP) government Rs 3,259 crore per annum on human health. This is four per cent of the gross state
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Decongestion directive
The Supreme Court (sc) has told the Delhi government to rid the capital of traffic congestion. In this regard, the state authorities have been instructed to control the number of vehicles plying on
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Running a farm
Farm forestry can overcome the raw material scare
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City govt to set up 40 CNG stations
Dawn 27/02/08 The City District Government Karachi will set up 40 compressed natural gas (CNG) stations in the metropolis under public-private partnership at various bus terminals and depots of the defunct Karachi Transport Corporation. Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil said this while talking to Chairman CNG Station Owners Association of Pakistan (CNG-SOAP) Malik Khuda Bukh, who called on her at her office on Wednesday. She said that the country's progress in the CNG industry would help realise the dream of pollution-free environment. She said the government was working for the betterment of the city's infrastructure. They were making all out efforts to ensure pollution-free environment in the metropolis, she said, adding that a model fitness and vehicle testing station was being set up to cope with growing vehicle-related pollution. The association chairman was satisfied that there was no shortage of gas in Sindh. He said that 1,923 CNG stations were working across the country, while 1.65 million vehicles were running on CNG. He said 40 per cent of these CNG-run vehicles were in Karachi. The naib nazim was informed that Sindh had also provided 47 million cubic feet gas to Sui Northern Gas Company, when the Punjab province was hit by gas shortage in winter. She was also told that Karachi needed some 200 CNG stations to meet the growing demand.
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In short
>> The Zambian Parliament has amended the Mines and Minerals Act allowing the government to levy higher taxes on mining companies by abolishing all existing agreements. Mining companies operating