Origins of Indo-European languages
Now evolutionary biologists have jumped in where linguists fear to tread, namely the stormy question of when and where Indo-European languages …
EU legislation - The wrong note
The music industry is crying out loud against eu legislation for protecting intellectual property, complaining that it falls short of what is …
Foss time in India
Microsoft is the most familiar term in the proprietary software industry. The company's penetration in people's minds is so deep that it is often …
European Commission's research commissioner on India's coaction with EU
The first India-European Union ministerial-level science conference took place on February 5, 2007, in New Delhi, signalling, for the first time,…
EU eyes Indian scientists
The European Union (EU) road show to attract Indian scientists and forge collaborations with India concluded recently. During this event, EU …
WSSD: dialogue of the deaf
The needs of many were once again compromised to accommodate the demands of a powerful few. Given the alarming tilt towards self-interest and …
Time-out
The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …
Future compromised
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …
Toothless
European laws are not effective to check the use of dangerous chemicals, says a European Commission report
Banning spam
The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice …
An appeasement for French farmers
French peasants fearing withdrawal of subsidies under the European Community's agricultural policy must be relieved to find the just-concluded …
UK breathes easy after Ripa di Meana's exit
New EC environment commissioner Jacques Delors is expected to take a much softer stand on England's environmental transgressions
Lies, well told
In reel life, when things go wrong, the director takes recourse to a re-take. Then there are the stunt-men, who stand in for the hero when the …
The trash piles up
With Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands insisting on high recycling targets, an agreement on waste packaging among European Community members …
"We see ourselves as a bridge between the EU and the US"
From climate change to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the UK is at the centre of intense global debate on these issues. Clifford Polycarp …
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 …
Road to Buenos Aires
The US strategy, calling for joint action by industrialised nations in the Pacific Rim to reduce carbon emissions, comes under fire from the …
Kyoto in trouble
Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian …
Thorny issue resurfaces
At its recently concluded third session in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Forum on Forests (unff) took a step towards the creation of a …
EU's biofuel policy fuelling food inflation: ActionAid
Report predicts forced displacement of poor people from their land to meet EU targets to grow fuel crops
Detergents threaten India's waterbodies
Narinder K Kaushik, professor emeritus at the University of Guleph, Ontario, Canada, speaks to Nitin Sethi on the dangers of phosphate content …
Cod crisis
The European Union imposes strict restrictions on cod farming. But it could be too late
Heading for showdown
Even as the US accuses the EU of rewriting prior agreements, the later agrees on a common approach to limiting flexible mechanisms for …
Russia ambiguous on Kyoto
With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …
Reduced greenhouse gas emissions to impact profits
a new report will help people take informed decisions about investing in the automobile sector. It includes details of how efforts to restrict …
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