Smelly bargain
Developing nations insist that industrialised countries are reneging on their part of the deal in cleaning up the atmosphere
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Unwilling bull's eyes
The people of the Netarhat plateau in Bihar refuse to move out of the range of fire
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GAP told to clean up its act
A Supreme Court order has put the fate of the ambitious Ganga Action Plan in doubt
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MEF and the law of the jungle
I AM the law," said Bumble, the parochial beadle in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, terrorising his wards into submission. The ministry of environment and forests' new draft Conservation of
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A jumbo by the tail
1994 seems to be prime time for pachyws- First there were 2 books describI dwir lives and future - Douglas edwick's Fate of the Elephant and ow Sukumar's Elephant Nights and VK and then came 2
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A plague on this country
The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the administration and the country's health system collapsed under the power of both
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Radiating confidences
An elated India is elected chairpersons of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors and the organisation's member nations agree to strengthen security around nuclear plants
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Chemical apocalypse
...And the government's knee jerk reaction to a TRMS NEERI study of hazards in the chemicals industry
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Power at full capacity
The Power Finance Corp has recently initiated a programme to enhance energy efficiency by installing capacitors to harness the reactive load in transmission systems
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Too close to the sun
The internationally funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter
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Hello...calling anywhere
C DOT is transforming the way rural India communicates
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Too high a price
Unwitting subjects to a 1954 nuclear experiment, the former inhabitants of a Pacific atoll continue to suffer
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Brain drain backs up
India finally tries to give real incentives to stop indigenous intelligence from migrating abroad
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The chemistry of living death
THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its poorest of the poor are the 2 elements missing in Bhopal a full decade aft methyl isocyanate leaked fro
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Britain sounds red air alert
Searing heat and vehicular emissions skyrocketed ozone levels in Britain, prompting the government to caution against using cars, jogging or even exercising outdoors
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...a taste of dry death
As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...
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Waste behind bars
Waste recycling and optimal resource use is giving the Capital's prison a new purpose
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Where have all the Indians gone?
Until we shed our communal, regional and caste identities, the quintessential Indian will remain a rare species
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The GEF's warped priorities
IN THEIR eagerness to assume global environmental leadership, representatives of the Indian government committed a faux pas recently by trying to grab the chairpersonship of the World Bank-controlled
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Digging its own grave
Despite its glorious past, the future of the Archaeological Survey of India is jeopardised because of internal wrangling and a lack of a concrete philosophy of exploration