Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger

Encroachments - by the poor and the rich alike - are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has …

Patancheru: water woes

While the apex court has brought to Patancheru's effluent-riddled land some relief in the forms of compensation and drinking water, it has not …

Does government favour land pooling over land acquisition?

Government decides to exempt Amravati residents from paying taxes for giving their land for the new capital

The see-saw approach

The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more …

Railroad Blues

Illegal logging is being carried out in the Northeast under the guise of laying railway tracks

THE GREEN CRUSADE

Over a year has passed since Germany's Green party came to power in 1998 by joining hands with their allies, the Social Democrats. Looking back, …

Outsourcing drug trials

The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the …

Orissa okays mining in tribal territory

In a move that threatens to dislocate the lives of millions of Orissa's tribal people, the state government has decided to allow transfer of land …

Yamuna clean-up project - Inaction plan

the March 31, 2003, deadline set by the Supreme Court (sc) for cleaning the 22-kilometre Delhi stretch of Yamuna river has come and gone. Yet the …

Well-oiled racket

Two incidents of illegal handling of waste oil have come to light recently, underscoring the fact that trade in the hazardous product continues …

Stop trade

Soligas harvested forest produce. For them, it was a sustainable business. Then, irrationally, government moved to

The madness of software patents

India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted

The Method Behind The Madness

When the official system learns to loot the official treasury, it also targets the natural estate, the biggest property of the modern state. Good …

"Right should belong to scientists"

For the first time in India, the draft of the Plant Varieties Protection (PVP) Act is being finalised by the ministry of agriculture. India, as a …

POLLUTER PAYS

Dealing with waste

Laws to regulate disposal of hospital wastes have been

Firm action

Making a case

The Patent Bill gives oral traditions document status

Hong Kong

Indian law caught in web

Can Information Technology Act deal with the dynamics of the Net?

Daft release?

India unveils its National Environment Policy 2004. Is it possible to smell a rat?

Shoring up

Concern over contaminant in Washington's water

Living with big brothers

The new members have to spruce up their environmental regulatory mechanisms

Sinking feeling

Of rising temperatures and dipping groundwater levels

Under fire

EPA sued for soft-pedalling