'Ministries play the blame game'

JAGDISH BAHADUR, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and SYED IQBAL HASNAIN , who heads the Glacier Research Group at Jawaharlal Nehru University, criticise India's lack of a positive response to a recent United Nations Environment Programme (unep) study on the dangers of melting glaciers, in a hard-hitting interview with RITU GUPTA. Scientists from unep and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (icimod) have revealed that global warming is causing at least 44 glacial lakes in Nepal and Bhutan to grow in size so rapidly that they could burst their banks within five years. The situation, which is causing widespread panic internationally, has left India cold