Experimental protests in the lab

A week of unprecedented protests by the employees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research indicates the deep discontent among India'…

Reaching for the Skies

New Delhi has become the hub of the burgeoning air traffic in Asia. But does it have the mathematical precision to avoid traffic snarls in the air?

Building on wrong premises

The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces …

Quake causes rift among seismologists

Seismologists may not agree on what caused the earthquake, but their views have made the government take up better seismic monitoring and analysis.

Behind the scene

Dioxins are extremely persistent and all pervasive. Yet its politics tries to undermine the danger

Is any place safe?

Like dormant volcanos, earthquakes, too, can strike in areas considered seismically inactive.

The Indian reality

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Internationally infamous

Toxic threat

Highly carcinogenic, dioxins trigger life-threatening diseases

Option shift

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What is 'open' in Free and Open Source Software?

Just shifting the issue

As the authorities dither and bicker over how to combat pollution in the Capital, industrial units proliferate and entrench themselves virtually …

Humanity's puzzling past

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …

A plague on this country

The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the …

Setting up shop

First, the government shook scientific institutions out of their lethargy by applying the brake on funds. Now, its asking them to tie up with …

Partners in prosperity

Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people'…

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Humanity's puzzling past

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …

For a few units more

A high-tech power station foreign companies are building in Maharashtra is being touted as the "perfect solution" to its anticipated electricity …

Chaotic response to calamity

The killer quake struck unexpectedli in the still of the night. Entire villages were flattened and thousands perished. Though rescue and relief …

Reaching for the Skies

New Delhi has become the hub of the burgeoning air traffic in Asia. But does it have the mathematical precision to avoid traffic snarls in the air?

Fuelling a crisis

A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…

India's game plan on GATT: Will it work?

The government says there are opportunities to improve the Dunkel packager but not all are convinced that it is trying hard enough. …

Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals

The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some …