Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

Tapping wastewater

Put into effect in earnest, the law on wastewater recycling can provide lasting relief to a parched Delhi. samreen farooqui delves into the issue

In the tax bracket again

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items -- tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a …

Pesticide industry thriving on legal loopholes

The CSE's recent expos has blown the lid off the bottled water industry's tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has …

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Cries of anguish

Most Indians are defenceless against the fine toxic particles in the air -- largely products of vehicular emissions -- and scientists are finding …

EU plays safe

Proposed EU law has mixed implications for India

Popular medicine

Farmers say 'no' to Ranbaxy expansion plans

Business as usual

The EU has not learnt anything from its failure at Cancun

In Short

The deadly public sector

Children beware!

Punished for good

Bill Or Bull?

Why is India pushing for the enactment of a bill that does not protect agriculture?

Grace period

A PEOPLE'S VERDICT

Stir bears fruit

Agro-watershed

Disincentive for defaulters

Proposal to tax erring industrialists for CETPs in Delhi

China

SC not to budge on CNG issue

Apex court slams Mashelkar committee report

Driving out petrol cars

Bold clean-air campaign launched in Italian city

Exporting toxicity

Chemicals banned in the US as poison are shipped to developing nations as pesticides

Tourist revulsion

Steeped in pollution, Ranchi lake is no more a crowd-puller

Committees vs committees

Can rubber stamps serve public interests?