A reminder of responsibility
EXACTLY after a decade, the Nobel Peace Prize has found a recepienty campaigning directly against atomic weapons. In1985,it had been awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of
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Hard selling a fallacy
The North will stagnate, South will grow, and the multinationals, aided by World Bank ideologues, will exploit the poorer countries for their own survival
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Never equal
What does development engineered displacement mean for the other half?
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Water - It's in our hands
India's Waterbodies all facing a slow death and revealing signs of an equally sick and dying civilisation. I say 'civilisation' and not society because, Indin civilisation always respected its water resources
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A depletion of faith
SEPTEMBER 16 this year, as recommended by the United Nations General Assembly, marks the first International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer -- the thin layer of gaseous stratospheric ozone
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A shredded project
After the proposed Nylon 6,6 plant in Goa was discussed threadbare and opposed by many, the Greens succeeded in having the project shifted out
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Smokescreen
The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
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Unexpected relief
Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood
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Red alert in Chhattisgarh
Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal extremists enforce their version of justice by opposing land alienation. But the new state has its compulsion
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All workers unite...
...especially in the gigantic unorganised sector, and suddenly the labour fringe becomes the mainstream
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Nucleocracy's nonsense
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste
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Oil spoil
The planned scuttling of the superannuated Brent Spark oil rig sparks off an international protest
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A few rotten NGOs...
...have create enough of a stink to taint the rest of the much vaunted 'Third Sector', says a government funded body
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Sea change in the forest
Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests
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Nukes iced
Russia's nuclear recklessness could haunt the Northern regions for centuries to come
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Nuked into submission
Trampling opposition, the nuclear armed nations succeeded in extending the NPT
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The nuclear outrage
The recently concluded conference to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt) has once again driven home the message that hypocrisy is the buzzword in the present world order. After nearly 2
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Brushing up
India's good old neem tree could be used by industry if it stands by its assurances of research and resources
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Let it be martyrdom, not murder
IQBAL Masih's assassination cannot be condoned. His crime: he dared to speak out against child labour. The 12-year-old boy was riddled with bullets on April 16, Easter Sunday, while cycling
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'Commercialisation alone can sustain non conventional energy sources'
G V RAMAKRISHNA is a member of the Planning Commission, currently dealing with the energy sector. The former Indian Administrative Service officer was India's ambassador to Belgium from 1988 1990. He was appointed chairperson of t