Opinions

DTE sought the comments of legal luminaries and journalists on some issues that emerged out of this analysis. The individuals whose opinions …

The verdict

What the judiciary needs to do is to put the heat on the regulatory and executive agencies of the country and improve the country's environmental …

Span Resorts: motel mayhem

Was the motel owned by a former environment minister's relatives really responsible for destroying the pristine banks of the Beas? The apex …

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 …

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 …

Tourism in Jarawa buffer, officially

Andaman administration to remove legal hurdles to allow small commercial activities

Oil spoils

That, too, for very long

Silver lining

Rules abate mercury pollution

MoEF falters

New draft environmental clearance process full of gaps

100 per cent FDI in housing

Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?

Land unsettled

Victim of politicking, forest rights bill not tabled in parliament

Deep despair

20,000 workers die in China's coal mines every year

Feeble Rights

Rights-based governance has not been accompanied by effective delivery mechanism

Indian law caught in web

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

Ladies of the lake

New panel to modify energy Acts