News 360° - Briefs

Crowd at the gate

Everyone wants a piece of the pie in the sky  

Loud and unclear

How smart is a smart city?

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn't

South Asia - Fuel subsidy to continue in Sri Lanka

NAFTA kicks in, Mexican farmers protest

New gold rush

Freeing bamboo from the state

A recent notification making bamboo a minor forest produce can only be the first step

Dairy paradox

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

No state support to Zimbabwe's A2 farmers

China offers incentive for non-food biofuel

Crank it up

Latin lessons

Experiments in cash transfer in Latin America

Guinea charges fuel, subsidizes food

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules

Zimbabwe pits currency against food price

Public health over profits

Can green mean free?

South Asia

WTO says US failed on subsidies

EU fishers up against dearer fuel