Building bridges

Both allopathy and Indian systems of medicine can gain from each other, provided practitioners interact with an open mind

Perjury and other afflictions

While the market for herbal preparations is maturing, laws and regulations have failed to keep pace with it

India needs the science of the common people

It's a paradox that while the government is busy opening up the telecom sector to multinational companies, technocrat Sam Pitroda, perhaps the …

Bhotiya's show the way

Fish exhibition

Vanishing herbs

Many varieties of medicinal plants and flowers in Darjeeling are facing extinction

Extinction threat

Extinction threat

KILLING SLICKS

Cry neem

There is more to neem than fighting a patent

RAMPANT COLLECTION

Brazil

Cooking with kokum

Spice, fruit juice and now weight watchers' manna

Seeking shikimic

Panel suggests measures to tackle crisis in stressed thermal power projects

Report flags erratic coal supply, institutional challenges; suggests closing old thermal power units

Past their prime

Around 20 per cent of India's coal-based power plants have completed their life. It is time these highly inefficient and polluting units were shut

The power of sewage

Maharashtra is all set to use treated sewage water in thermal power plants. Can this move be scaled up?

Bad Medicine

First there were the quacks. Then came the mass manufacturers of substandard herbal drugs and cosmetics. Cashing in on the goodwill of …

A multi-purpose plant

From providing cure for stomach ailments to being an antidote for poisoning , the Jatropha Curcas is priceless

A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them

Little boxes of herbs

SUMANA NARAYANAN finds a 125-year-old shop selling herbal medicines in the lanes of Chennai

"Biodiversity treaty is misleading the Third World"

A known a crusader for traditional Indian medicine. P Pushpangadan, who completed his Ph.D from Aligarh University, is currently the director of …

Unknown viruses dating back 15,000 years found in Tibetan glacier

The viruses likely originated with soil or plants, rather than with humans or animals

A touch of poison

Amrita Singh discovers culinary versatility of a potentially poisonous weed

Making science of mumbo-jumbo

Scientists compile India's ethnic knowledge. They find a veritable gold-mine