The invasion of Ukraine has raised some difficult questions about human rights

In both, Russia and Ukraine, the people’s right to civilian existence has been taken away

Disha Ravi arrest: Being young in India

They have a vast network, not to hatch conspiracies, but to remain informed. They exchange toolkits, not to spread hate mails but to keep up with …

Dilli’s dalchawal politics: The taste of power

The unabashed one-upmanship indulged by key players has made even the prospect of a joint activity a painful chore.

From quarters to kothis: A migrant couple’s journey to nowhere

Safety nets of millions of migrant workers came apart as COVID-19 lockdown came into force

"Right should belong to scientists"

For the first time in India, the draft of the Plant Varieties Protection (PVP) Act is being finalised by the ministry of agriculture. India, as a …

No penny for the Onges?

The discovery of a generation-old plant extract used by Onges in The Andarnans has patent-hungry profiteers jostling their way down There The …

Losers still

The mad scramble for patenting the magic malaria antidote is seemingly resulting in dishonesty and plagiarism, while Onges, the actual knowledge …

Ours and theirs

An American company appropriates the name 'basmati' as its own, and the contentious issue of patents and protection comes to the fore once again

Heated protests over nuclear waste

Global resentment brews as Japan plans to ferry a new consignment of radioactive waste across maritime boundaries, flattening the latest …

Vertigo at the summit

The forthcoming World Summit for Social Development has already polarised North-South social imperatives

Bum deal at the summit

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing: that was the Social Development battlefield at Copenhagen

Thin ice

A debate on Earth's last virgin territory heats up as multinationals continue to stampede towards the Antarctic

Watershed deals

Indo-Bangladesh water talks seem to have taken a positive turn while critics still consider the issue a washed out case

From research to riches

It's no more going to be science for science's sake in China anymore as the nation plans for megabuck

The gender benders

A recent study gives disturbing revelations about the impact that everyday-use chemicals may have on the human sperm count and even induce sex change

Monkeying with money

Reluctantly funding developing countries for research on CFC substitutes is another exercise in enriching multinationals who created much of the …

Women to the fore

The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women

How a government dams its people

Reacting to a perennial water crisis with a series of dams that will ravage the rainforests, the Thai government bashes on regardless and …

Radiating confidences

An elated India is elected chairpersons of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors and the organisation's member nations …

Smelly bargain

Developing nations insist that industrialised countries are reneging on their part of the deal in cleaning up the atmosphere

A beaten path

Suresh Prabhu is by no means breaking new ground. He is merely mouthing the same promise made time and again, but never fulfilled, by his predecessors

Outrage

Ken Saro-Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a …

In dubious battle

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to curb illegal trade in Indian wildlife and wildlife products. …

Share-ware

A usual story: a transnational company develops a profitable product based on the resources and knoledge preserved by an indigenous community …

Welcoming the pirates

The issue of genetic resources today has apparently introduced "a new dimension to national security". Though some scientists are making …