Miffed with the greens

Conscious of the pressure upon them, representatives of industry discuss environmental matters at length in the automobile manufacturers' annual meet

Wanted: rule of law

What plagues Maharashtra’s irrigation sector

Whose flat is it anyway

Resettlement of slum dwellers remains confined to political agenda

Industry over public health

New DoT mobile tower guidelines fall short of meeting need of the hour

Of fairytales and GMOs

The pros and cons of genetically modified organisms and their possible impact on India

Pricing the precious

A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis

Discovery of India

Anil Agarwal delivers his acceptance speech for the Norman Borlaug Award 2001

Jharkhand plagued by silicosis

Sethusamundram project is unviable

The last 125 km

Dear friends

The donkey has his day

The flip side of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh

Agricultural growth rate figures in the state appear to be unrealistic if one considers farm suicides and increase in number of landless farm …

The legendary Gandhian

Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

Technosolutions

The need of the hour is technological innovation that helps tackle both poverty and environmental degradation

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 …

The relation between tanks and trees

For survival of the traditional water management structures, one must understand the linkages between the tanks and trees

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

Reform for reform’s sake

Without bottom-up rehauling National Environment Protection Agency will be more of the same

Promoting millets: the wheel need not be reinvented

New policy could be detrimental to millet farming

Sharks in soup

India goes against world in not banning shark fin trade

Movement for worse

The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives

History matters

The Forest Rights Act augurs differently for two tribal communities in Kerala

Global warming can't be fixed without egalitarian ethic