Parched capital

While Delhi struggles to make rainwater harvesting compulsory even after 13 years of amending byelaws, Chennai shows the way

The natco-pfizer test

Natco’s demand for a voluntary licence from Pfizer will establish how well the compulsory licence process works in India

The battle over forests

Are the recent eviction drives misdirected? (Read full article)

Logjam

Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work …

There's nothing august about Mumbai

July 26, 2005: It began raining at 11 am. In the next 24 hours, India's most populous city received 944 mm of rainfall. The resultant flood …

Theirs to mine?

This is the question angry and beleaguered tribals in Orissa and Jharkhand are asking, as mining companies set up shop in the midst of their land …

A cosmetic leap of faith

Industry ignores perils of using nanotechnology in beauty products

Law of no returns

Kings of forests

The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming

Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

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Counting the cost

Is Span motel's punishment commensurate with its crime? Experts wonder...

Veil against toxicity

Chemicals available in Europe would now be tested and labelled for their adverse impacts

EU to certify buildings for energy efficiency from 2006

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

EIA A nice formality

Draft coastal management notification faces protests

Ghaziabad battles noxious fumes from burnt batteries

News 360° - Briefs

Crazy GM patent system

The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto’s royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops

Righting the copywrong

Amending the Copyright Act to give directors, composers and musicians rights over their work has corrected a historic wrong but trouble is brewing

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

Power trickles down

Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers

Shrouded in controversy

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people's rights over forests.