Fuel for thought
To reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere, growing and using biomass as an energy substitute for fossil fuels is of greater advantage than creating carbon sinks
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Natural elements keep homes comfortable
A new architectural technique uses the sun and other natural elements to regulate temperature, thereby helping to conserve non renewable energy resources.
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MONEYMAKERS
DIVIDING WORKS: Dabur India Ltd plans to spin off its oncology and food divisions into separate companies. Anand Burman, deputy managing director of Dabur India, says, the company now wants to focus
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A whole new world
A <i>Down To Earth</i> team also landed up at the fourth World Social Forum, Mumbai, January 16 21, 2004. At the world s largest and equally varied civil society gathering, the team encountered dust, songs and myriad experiences of people trying to make
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Smooth operators
Tiny snake like robotic appendages that worm into the human body and perform complicated operations. That's surgery of the future
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Death pits darken green fields in Haryana
Carbon dioxide trapped in pits built for tubewell motors in Haryana's green revolution districts have killed hundreds of farm workers. Scientists say overexploitation of the state's groundwater resources is indirectly responsible.
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Landing on the red planet
The world s powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth s uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space faring powers, the European Union and the US, extended their race for space supremacy to
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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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MONEYMAKERS
SIDE-EFFECTS: The France-based Roche Holding AC, has planned to withdraw its drug for high blood pressure, Posicor, as its interaction with other medicines is poor. Long term clinical trials have
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'I will not say Delhi is an environmental disaster'
Delhi is bursting at the seams from the pressures of rampant urbanisation. Everything that can possibly go wrong in this metro of 10 million people seems to have already gone wrong. The water, land and air everything seems to have been fouled up, the re
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The aftermath
The tests at Pokharan have shown that, given the right thrust, India can develop thermonuclear power plants
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MONEYMAKERS
drug deal: The pharmaceutical major, Ranbaxy has planned to launch 25 brands worldwide in coming seven years. The company is also targeting drugs that would come off patents during this period.
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Coming to grips with survival
Moulded plastic handles enable the farmers of the Tahirpur leprosy colony in Delhi to harvest high yields
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Koel Karo battles on
Tribals have been fighting the Koel Karo dams for the last 20 years the longest struggle against a project. Now, a fresh budget fuels the controversy further
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Will MNCs displace the domestic industry?
MNCs are virtually shutting out indigenous manufacturers from the urban slice of the telecom pie, but the fault is not entirely theirs.
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MALAR miracle
From literacy to economic independence
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Same indifference
Last week, on a visit to the cold desert of Ladakh, I learnt something important. It made me see the ongoing agricultural negotiations at the World Trade Organization s meet in Cancun, Mexico in a
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Some important cases
• Sanitation in Ratlam: In a landmark judgement in 1980, the Supreme Court explicitly recognised the impact of a deteriorating urban environment on the poor. It linked basic public health
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Eyes of the beholder
Yes, we can see. A new study tells us how
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A necessary drain
Draining of Lake Powell, formed after creation of a dam on the Colorado river, has become essential for restoring the ecology of the Grand Canyon and water management