The 2001 Bhuj earthquake was something of a watershed in Indian disaster preparedness. Several state governments, most so in the Northeast, and various central ministries were shocked into a comprehension of the dangers. However, national capital New Delh
smokescreen: Two persons were charred to death and 25 injured in a major fire at pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy's factory in Mohali, Punjab, on June 11. The blaze was preceded by blasts at the
Parts of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, the site of the world's severest civil nuclear catastrophe that occurred in 1986, will be sold as scrap in March 2005. The money raised will pay
More than 70 per cent of small cetaceans
EGS fails the poorest
Districts that are badly off have got the short shrift Districts like Bidar, Bellary, Chitradurga and Gulbarga, are badly affected, but no special efforts have been made to take care of the
One of the giant snails controversially translocated to New Zealand's West Coast has died. The creature was one of the 367 rare Powelliphanta augustus snails, which were moved from their natural
How should a forest be defined in India? The Union ministry of environment and forests is currently preoccupied with this question. Placing this process in context, <font class='UCASE'>archi rastogi</font> finds the custodian of India s forests coul
In 1998, it was the Bishnois who reported Khan's blackbuck hunting expedition in the first place. Now, they continue to help keep public attention on the actor as the trials proceed. The
<img src="../files/images/20071031/30.jpg" align="left" /><font class="UCASE">T</font>he antibiotics we consume are now being found in effluents discharged by industrial estates in Andhra Pradesh. Shockingly, the quantities are not minuscule. Researchers who collected samples and then analysed them say the amount of antibiotics they detected has never been reported anywhere else in the world.
It is now part of the carbon game: emitting but buying carbon credits to balance accounts. People fly to their holidays but buy some carbon
The draft "Hazardous Materials Rules 2007' put up on the MoEF website in September this year for public comments has changed the definition of hazardous waste by replacing the word
Mobile and extremely useful "I understand it is not easy for the living to donate a kidney; but then why is the government not encouraging transplants from cadavers,'
The recent imbroglio on interconnectivity between cellular and fixed/WiLL CDMA subscribers left many speechless. The response came via a proxy war involving MTNL and BSNL. This is worrying; for interconnectivity is the basic technical and legal requiremen
Indians from western Venezuela demanded a halt to coal mining in their region and called government efforts to formalize their ownership of ancestral lands a "fraud'. The protesters said three mines
Think tourism in India and the first images that will flash through your mind is the Taj Mahal and the Indian tiger. Tigers, and the protected areas created for their conservation, are the dominant motif of the picture postcard from favourite holiday de
In terms of user-friendliness, Tamil Nadu's rehabilitation has been disastrous
Agriculture, the mainstay of Chhattisgarh's economy, is getting a battering from two sides
It really helps A 2006 Asian Development Bank study, Energy efficiency and climate change considerations for on-road transport in Asia, presents results from three case studies in South Asia
In our December 31, 2006 issue we raised some questions in the editorial, 'Economics of congestion'. Readers responded. Here is a cross section of views Theory-practice hiatus Shreekant Gupta,
