The chemistry of living death

Remedies

Government has to revise its policies. But it will have to learn from the civil society

Threat from agriculture

Soft quarries

Indiscriminate mining could wreak havoc

Gatt's new avatar is a demon

An extraordinary session of the US Congress meets in December to approve the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade amidst fears that its new …

Encounter Jovis Pater

A solar system within a solar system? Seems like a riddle, but if one planet can hold 1,000 earths, is 318 times as massive and 1,400 times more …

Arice and fight

Two new proposed Indian legislations will please the World Trade Organisation. But will they protect the rights of Indian farmers over the …

Reporting losses

The Ranganath Misra Committee's report on managing plastic waste is out. Will it fail to deliver like the earlier National Plastics Waste …

Puppets on purse strings

At the International Conference on Finance for Development (ffd) held last month in Monterrey, Mexico, rich countries once again rejected new, …

Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Kolar: The dilemma continues

Although the MRC's work is still going on, the community remains has not been educated to continue with it

Hardwar: Not without help

The malaria control operations have been successful only because of help from a large public sector corporation

Many takers of a park

A public eyewash

The inspection and maintenance programme is nothing more than testing tailpipes of vehicles in India. The government should stop wasting …

Accountable automatically

Emission warranty and recall system have compelled the automobile manufacturers in the US and Sweden to take serious anti-pollution measures

Weed them out

The challenge is how to isolate "gross polluters" from the vehicle fleet and send them back to the manufacturers

The chemistry of living death

THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its …

THE GREEN CRUSADE

Over a year has passed since Germany's Green party came to power in 1998 by joining hands with their allies, the Social Democrats. Looking back, …

Biodiversity

Poverty abounds in bio-rich areas

Complex systems of preserving biodiversity, evolved over centuries, have not saved traditional communities living in bio-rich areas like India …