Playing with facts

An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …

Blues for the big cats

Everyone knows of the tiger's endangered status, but the government seems unwilling to face the reality. So far, it has tried to resolve the …

Power to the people

Heads of panchayats arrived in the Capital to demand the power to effectively run the traditional self-government

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

Adrift and Isolated

A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let-down for the fiskerfolk

Deadlocked in Aligarh

On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless …

Mission impossible?

The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation

Cola major gets a taste of panchayat power

A multi-billion-dollar transnational corporation has had to blink first in an eyeball-to-eyeball dispute with an obscure panchayat of Kerala. On …

TRIPPED

On December 26, 2004, the Union government of India issued the Patents (Amendments) Ordinance, which will change the way the country does …

No land, no money

An Act meant to financially help tenant farmers of suicide-prone Andhra has failed them

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

Lost in woods

Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh

Streamlining autonomy

Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states

Modified decision

Sri Lanka delays imposing a ban on GM foodstuffs

Cleansing act

LISTING SITES

On the right track

Automotive manufacturers to put their heads together to survive EU recycling directive

Junking plastic

Proposal to clamp down on plastic carrybags and wrappers in Tamil Nadu

GI woe

Geographical indication debate intensifies as EU ups the ante

In distress

Hair pollution hits Karnataka

Nuclear EU

Ignores decommissioning, radioactive waste disposal

In Court

In Short

In Short

Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve