Orissa simmers

Heat strikes; victims’ families kept waiting for Rs 10,000

Patkar populism lights sparks on Zee TV

Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar fended with dexterity the provocative questions posed to her in Zee TV's Aapki Adalat.

Justice remains mirage for Bhopal gas victims

Nearly eight years after the Bhopal gas disaster, the legal battle over a settlement continues. But for the efforts of public interest agencies …

Eye opener

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Oil's well that ends well

Cleanup call

Poplar demand

Trees take centrestage in Himachal Pradesh

Radio programmes a hit in Pakistan occupied Kashmir

Last gasps

WAIT UNTIL DEATH Perspectives Audio Visuals Bengali S-VHS/Umatic 55 mins (English subtitles) Supriya Sen, Samit Basu-Mallik, Tathagatha Banerjee, …

Infamy and after

Minamata in Japan and Bhopal in India. Two of the worst cases of chemical disaster to have hit the world this century. Years later, the …

Rock rap: companies, HP face the music

SC comes down heavily on corporates and HP government, slapping a Rs 5-crore fine for defacing rocks in Rohtang Pass

Lean pastures

Drought and a viral disease strike Jaisalmer’s livestock. Kurush Canteenwala finds out how the herders are coping

Pay for bad air

Kerala enacts new statute

Up the creek

Pollution penalty

13 is a bad number

Doctors rush for village posting

Long wait for Plachimada victims

Compensation panel illegal

Red tape and corruption delay compensation

DECEMBER 2-3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak - the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.…

‘Need to go beyond elephant numbers’

Mahesh Rangarajan, chair of the elephant task force, talks to Sumana Narayanan on the future of elephant conservation in India. The task force …

Leopards in our alley

These big cats have lived in human habitations for long

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