A bracketed meeting in Geneva
The latest meeting to decide upon funding for the ozone protocol ended up with the developed nations foiling the basic demands of the G-77 …
Woes of the world
It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report
How is science doing?
"The engine of social and economic improvement" has recently been assessed globally by experts and scientists
Hello, lets save those trees
Protest calls spread far and wide against the logging of ancient rain orests by a US company for manufacturing its phone books
Letter of advice
Denying education to women may erode fundamental human solidarity, affecting social cohesion, says a United Nations report
The ozone piracy
Hectic trading of CFCs in US back-alleys is bothering little about the earth's punctured ozone canopy
Mangled mangroves
All that may remain of the pristine mangrove forests of coastal Tamil Nadu is degraded forest tracts and plundered biodiversity
A clean dig
Experts from all over India and the world vote for cleaner mining options in the first ever world mining Congress
Damned squabbles
Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims
Ghose is dead
An ULFA press release says that Sanjoy Ghose fell to his death from a cliff in Arunachal Pradesh
Destination: red planet
The historic Mars Pathfinder spacecraft lands on the Mars equipped with the first ever mobile robot rover to divulge the planet's secrets
Ancestral relations
The recent discovery of 800,000-year-old fossils may provide an insight into the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals
Boon or menace?
Public interest litigations come under a cloud once again as the Prime Minister questions their viability
Life positive
With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non-infectious diseases that now threaten us
Sinking prices
Oil prices in India are reaching for the sky even as international oil prices hit an all-time low
Opportunity missed
India could have made good use of environmental regulations to control the effect of WTO agreement on the Indian economy
In trouble again
Supreme Court issues notices against closure of final tunnels of Tehri dam; conditions unfulfilled
Pied pipers of Irula
Rats.... rats.... we've got to get rid of the rats. Irula tribals offer the most environmentally-safe, low-cost way to do it
Shifting Ganga creats islands disputed
In the post-monsoon months of September and October, the Ganga often rises to flood vast tracts of border land in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. As the …
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European dairy farmers spilled three million litres of milk in the past month protesting against low prices. EU ministers refused emergency aid …
Coping with biodiversity
Internal pressures weakened India's stand on funding at the Conference of Parties on Biodiversity Convention held in Nassau in November
Space opera
After years of pranged possibilities and piggyback rides, India has attained independent satellite launch capability
Education on their backs
For mysterious motives, the Central government has rejected proposals to lighten the killing load that children have to carry to be educated
Collision in space
At least 2 Indian planetaria are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime ogle at Jupiter as it is strafed by a comet shower
Cut and run
No one wants to shoulder responsibility for microorganisms that were brought into the country for agriculture trials