'I don't expect largescale policy initiatives in the environmental sector'

JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington-based World Resource Institute (WRI) and is the co-chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable …

Foliage fever

Galvanising support for the unconditional withdrawal of the new Forest Bill, NGOs and a fifth column within the bureaucracy are harrowing the …

The great and bloody organs bazaar

The recent regulatory organ transplant Act, supposed to be a fist in the kidneys of the huge illegal bodyparts trade, has turned out to be a …

Time for India to take stock

The new trade order ordained by GATT affects India's entire economy. Some consider it a new form of colonialism, but others see it as a bountiful …

Champions of a new cause

National political parties are often accused of neglecting the environment. Recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party began campaigning against two …

The not-so-evident truth about R & D

Research by private companies has not grown in proportion with economic liberalisation because of a lack of innovative character.

The numbers game

Can the cold logic of statistics ever breathe life into yardsticks for deciding whether a nation has done good or bad by its people?

To Summits, traversing slippery slopes

The new utilitarians

...of the North revel in pushing the South to the road to environmental rack and ruin

India's game plan on GATT: Will it work?

The government says there are opportunities to improve the Dunkel packager but not all are convinced that it is trying hard enough. …

The world in his pocket

Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental …

Dying of progress

As the reckless plundering of the world's limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in …

Highways of death

High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones

The price of power

As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, …

On the trail of the hungry herd

A stray herd of elephants in West Bengal was hounded by villagers and government officials, who feared destruction of their crop. The incident …

Cricket emission levels and smokescreens

A new study shows it is not just English cricketers who are manipulatin4data for their benefit - the ministry of environment, too, is playing a …

A question of leadership

The issue of leadership and management of R&D institutions proves to be a stumbling block in making such bodies more productive.

Not merely a numbers game

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …

Dying of progress

As the reckless plundering of the world's limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in …