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Apr 15-30, 2003
Cover Story
US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about global rights to common property resources, equity and social justice
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Good news for the ever manipulative pesticide industry: the Dubey committee -- a panel of experts set up by the Registration Committee of the Central Insecticides Board -- has concluded that endosulfan is not responsible for the health problems prevalent in Kasaragod district of Kerala. Inexplicably, endosulfan gets a clean chit despite a National Institute of Occupational Health study proving that it is the "causative factor" in the incidence of all crippling illnesses in the area
India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection, unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned out to be just hot air
At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country's water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river
On April 1 this year the revised norms for bottled water should have come into force, but didn't. By missing the deadline -- which ironically coincided with All Fool's Day -- the Union government may have played a practical joke on millions of people consuming packaged water
"Tonight I am proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles," declared us President George Bush in his State of the Union Address to the congress in January 2003. The announcement is just one among a spate of recent developments worldwide which indicate that the journey towards a hydrogen economy is gathering speed
the March 31, 2003, deadline set by the Supreme Court (sc) for cleaning the 22-kilometre Delhi stretch of Yamuna river has come and gone. Yet the river, which is the source of 70 per cent of Delhi's drinking water, remains a "dirty drain"
Interview
Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of Hanoi i...
Factsheet
Cancer incidence is rising. Hope for treatment in pegged on molecular biology
Analysis
US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about global rights to common property resources, equity and social justice
Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy
Feature
The saperas (snake-charmers) of Delhi loive in a unique colony called Mollarbandhgaon. This community, located next to the Badarpur thermal power station, is known locally as sapera basti -- community of snake charmers. The community has been living in Delhi for decades and today forms the largest congregation of snake charmers in the city. The colony was a regular stop for tourist buses not long ago. The sight of deadly cobras undulating to the music of the flute would excite the tourists to no end. But today the people here will not even admit they keep snakes
An open letter to the Prime Minister
Debate
The People's Judicial Enquiry Commission probe into the Muthanga incident in Kerala sheds new light on this burning issue, which is causing plenty of turmoil for the Kerala government. The commission comprises of three people, two retired High Court judges -- H Suresh of the Bombay High Court and P K Shamsuddeen of the Kerala High Court -- and Manjeri Sunder Raj, a lawyer. Eminent jurist V R Krishna Iyer has appointed the commission on behalf of the Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity
It is not the first time that tribals of the Wayanad district in Kerala have rebelled against the state. In fact, the recent incident at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Kerala in February 2003 is the third of its kind
Thanks to state apathy, tribals of Kerala are landless
Opinion
two years ago the Supreme Court fixed 31 March 2003 as the deadline for cleaning the Yamuna. It's April 2003 now and unbelievably, the river that passes through India's capital city is actually dirtier. One frightening indication: this river has 118 million per 100 ml of total coliform bacteria. According to the Central Pollution Control Board the water should not have more than 5000 per 100 ml, if it is to be used for drinking after treatment and disinfection. This shows how dangerous the water is; other bacteria and viruses which cause typhoid, cholera or hepatitis follow the feco-oral route and are likely to be also present
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is making the world sneeze. Even as the global health community struggles to unmask a new, deadly, organism, it faces a 21st century dilemma: the speed at which its human carriers have travelled is faster than the incubation of the disease
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