Popular poisons

Toxic pesticides that contaminate the soil and enter the food chain need to be replaced with non-toxic ones. But research in this area is still …

Playing with poison

It is better to act early, than wait for ddt to take its toll on humans

Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work?

Sen's manner of addressing poverty issues has left many questions unanswered

Reprieve for the killer

Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Home coming

After initial doubts over whether the turtles would retain Orissa as the site of their annual nesting exercise, the reptiles return for the …

Divide and rule

The failure of India's rural planning policies is due to the lack of understanding of human-land relationship

Foul waters

Discharge of untreated industrial effluents and domestic sewage has severely polluted 34 river basins in Tamil Nadu

Need to save Goa's lifelines

Goa's water security depends on nine rivers considered to be the state's economic veins

Conditions to aid and trade

World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Shallow pledges

The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions

Exclusive cereal-dependence

The blind watchdog

At farm's hand

They lived with dinosaurs

Oh dear!

The decision to import deer into mangroves lacks scientific understanding

Fringe benefits taxed

Post-independence policies have taken away all securities of the small farmer

A land of their own

Society thinks women do not want to own land. That’s where it is wrong

Beyond techno fixes

Vulnerable people can be agents of change, not mere recipients of assistance

Walmart and the other America

Exposing the rhetoric behind campaign for consumer rights

A way to live with the demon

Plastic is here to stay. We have to find ways to use it smartly

Misplaced emphasis on security

The Salwa Judum judgement and the Union home ministry

Dwindling tree cover dilates storm havoc

Cyclones that traverse the Indian peninsula from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea are a common enough feature. But over the past few years, …

'Nature's gardeners' to the fore

Pampered European farmers cried foul as the Uruguay Round of GATT raced to a tense finish.

A billion strong or weak?

Recently, India crossed the one-billion population mark. The question on everyone's lips is what does the future hold for babies born this …