Teaching people green rights
Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.
Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.
A STRIKING feature of India's economic development has been its deviation from the stages-of-growth pattern that has characterised almost all developed countries. The growth paradigm has been so
As the world follows the Akatsuki Maru and its 1.3 tonnes of plutonium oxide on its controversial trans oceanic journey from France to Japan, Tokyo has to decide whether it will continue its trade in this highly toxic material.
Scientists say diesel fumes are carcinogenic, giving the war against vehicular pollution a shot in the arm
Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.
left in the lurch: Enron Corp has withdrawn its plan to set up a US $ 6 billion hydroelectric-power project in Nepal. With this, the company's grand plan has been stalled for South Asia. Enron's
Despite the Asian Development Bank setting up a social dimensions unit to liaise with NGOs and involve them in projects the bank funds, Asian NGOs are unconvinced of the bank's seriousness.
Increasing incidents of smuggling weapons grade nuclear material have explosive global ramifications
As scientists debate which of two new pesticides should be used in the fight against malaria, the toll in the disease slowly rises.
An ongoing debate in the UK questions the ethics behind the acquisition by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of acquiring tropical plants through dubious means and using them to manufacture life saving drugs, without any of the financial benefits reaching
From literacy to economic independence
The use of viruses as control agents against crop attacking insects is increasingly becoming popular.
Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree
The discovery of water will make it possible to set up a colony on the Moon. But will there be a repeat of the East India Company?
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
Modern science now confirms what was well known in India since Vedic times neem oil is an effective birth control agent.
MNCs are virtually shutting out indigenous manufacturers from the urban slice of the telecom pie, but the fault is not entirely theirs.
green signal: The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has granted permission to Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited for launching anti-ulcer drug "Ranitidine' in the US. The company is expected to file
Parisians see red and intercept a consignment of Indian roses meant to reach French women on Valentines day, turning it into a thorny issue
PANIC-STRICKEN by an illicit liquor that has taken a toll of at least 75 persons and a mysterious fever that may be Japanese encephalitis or simple food poisoning, Patna medical authorities have