Unfounded euphoria

The CSIR may have managed to shoot down one US patent on turmeric but Indian biodiversity needs a strong law to protect it

Rivers don't have borders

After having improved the state of the Rhine, Europe is cleaning up the Danube. A lesson for India

Cutting it short

The Biosafety Protocol has just been adopted. In some ways it is a step forward. But it may turn out to be powerless to check trade in …

Needed: a spine for Delhi government

There are two sets of rules for polluters. The rich and the powerful can pollute without fear, but the poor have to bear the brunt of their …

Skimmed milk

On Robert Zoellick, new World Bank president

An opportunity lost?

Strengthen the right

Bank's world

Containing a virus

Government jobs sans fringe benefits

Of human bondage

Science without vision

Dead on the information highway

Our sickening health system

The global green garb

Ignored treasures

Opting for a catastrophe

When scientists blow a fuse

The last gasp

Laps of plenty

Cycles of change

Security begins in the stomach

The margins of development

Shifting from hell to hell