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Panchayats' working women

Slowly but steadly, women elected to panchayats are asserting themselves and, in the process, giving a new thrust to grassroot governance

Money plants?

How green is your money? Investors try to figure out as plantation companies take them for a ride

Forest guardians

THE LAST FRONTIER: PEOPLE AND FORESTS IN MIZORAM·Daman Singh·Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi

Green promises

Political parties pay lip service to environmental issues in their election manifestos

Will the deserts retreat?

The first conference of parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification held in Rome took some important decisions to save the parts of the …

Postponed

Issues concerning the earth's future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at the just concluded Earth Summit II SUPRIYA AKERKAR …

The disposal debate

Sewage disposal is a big problem in Mumbai. The blueprint for a project to improve waste management in the city is ready but its effectiveness …

Attaining autonomy

Tribals in India have finally succeeded in achieving their long cherished ambition of self rule

Major battle for minor stuff

Trilbals dependent on the jungle's gifts fight it out in Bilaspur district

Oiling the wheels of globallisation

The Commission on Global Governance calls for a democratic world governance to deal with increasing global interdependence

Fencing in territory, fencing out inequality

... the Adivasi woman is no longer a silent observer of the issues bothering her for ages

Promises to keep

With the 1996 general elections just around the corner, the nation's premier political parties are back to making elaborate 'green' promises. But …

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