Ozone policy
ozone remains one of the most perplexing air pollutants posing critical threat to human health. While stratospheric ozone 10 to 50 km above the earth's surface keeps declining, aggravating the
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Contemptuous moves
Do Arundhati Roy and M L Khurana understand what they are doing by undermining yet another institution of our democracy?
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Is Naik serious about Auto Fuels Policy?
Why doesn t Naik simply say: What does it matter if a million or more die because of air pollution?
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Question of safety
The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio safety research
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Solving poverty
<font class='UCASE'>Gurdev S Khush</font> is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research Institute IRRI in the Philippines. His contribution to the global food security has e
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The truth of grains
The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question that of local food security.
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Sandal act
Winds of change in the scented wood
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What "alternatives" farce
Organisations are not looking for <br>solutions to the air pollution problem,<br>they are looking for problems in the<br>CNG solution
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Cost of ecological balance
THE book, written by academicians from various Indian universities including Gopal Kodikodi and edited by Rabindra N Bhattacharya, has been designed to meet the needs of undergraduate and
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Who is protected?
The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it was first moved in the Parliament. But experts are doubtful about the rights and protection that the bill seeks
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Profiting from disaster
<font class='UCASE'>Zoramthanga</font> , the chief minister of Mizoram, has many reasons to reminisce the birth of his party, the Mizo National Front, an insurgent group till 1986. About fifty years back, the famine that ensued the bamboo flowering led to
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Patented to act
Basmati embroglio stoked to cook
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Vindicated
The Magsaysay award for Rajendra Singh has meant volte face by critics of community based water harvesting
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Fragile sustenance
the book is a compilation of eleven essays written by the author over a period of twenty five years. These essays have a common string that bead them together, namely the dynamics of society-human
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Cardiac care
health care has become a big business. Writers are churning out books addressed to the increasingly health conscious society. Most of the books aim at educating public on the dos and don'ts on diet
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The Kyoto Compromise
The Kyoto compromise will cost the world and us a whole lot more than a new set of clothes for the emperor
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Gassing around
The bogey of price hike and non availability of gas might delay action to implement the court order on CNG conversion
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Producer s onus paramount
One of the pioneers of the Extended Producers Responsibility EPR theory, <font class='UCASE'>Thomas Lindhqvist </font> believes that plastic waste management will become increasingly expensive and EPR is the only logical solution. Excerpts of the inte
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There is never enough water
Kerala today has such a high population density that its total per capita rainwater availability is less than that of dry Rajasthan
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Another plague in the offing
The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning metropolises