A fish called subsidy

Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development

Plastic purge

Snippets

Devolution suffers setback

India's decentralisation process receives yet another blow

No mining

Uttaranchal village relieved

Jatropha fever

Why is the Chhattisgarh government promoting a poisonous and invasive plant?

Bleeding white

Antarctic microbes could be rampantly exploited to benefit a few

In short

Land unsettled

Victim of politicking, forest rights bill not tabled in parliament

PMO exposes system slip-up

Blocks Tamil Nadu's mega Sethusamudram project, cleared by other agencies

Still stressed

Tripura roused

Government wakes up to the need for disaster management

Lobby of choice

One cheer for politics

Mohalla sabha brings people and authorities face to face  

Parched Mumbai

The news is out: water levels in Mumbai are over 15 per cent less than last year. It might seem routine but it has the city up in arms. …

Stop patronising the adivasis, Mr PM; they need dignity, not charity

The government needs to recognise that forest laws need to be flexible enough to accommodate and invite collective participations of local …

How draft guidelines dilute economic, environmental responsibilities of businesses

Draft guidelines on Social, Environmental and Economical Responsibilities of Business water down specific recommendations on accountability of …

Reveal or go to jail

New Collection of Statistics Act comes into force. Makes furnishing information mandatory

Technical Problem!

Procedural delays on the part of implementing agencies will ensure that the Supreme Court deadline for the conversion of old Delhi Transport …

Performance pays

The chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Sikkim, who were rated as the greenest chief ministers in a CSE survey, have retained power in their states

Law and disorder

The present unrest in Delhi has little to do with industrial pollution or loss of livelihoods. The way in which the government has chosen to act …

More land, less timber

Ban on harvesting of timber may not solve the problem of deforestation in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Dried up water sources

Similipal region in Orissa faces the prospects of drought if steps are not taken to halt the flow of pollutants into perennial streams

Baywatch

Goa's 'army' fights drugs, AIDS, nudism and the various other ills of tourism that threaten to snuff out the local traditional lifestyle

On track to disaster

By ignoring sound technical advice, Konkan Railway jeopardises the fragile Western Ghats environment