The rare blood groups

Shelf Destruct

URGENT CALL

Oil at sea

The forbears of BP’s recent oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico

Breakdown

Government is sponsoring unsustainability at the cost of traditons which have sustained India

Mapping the subcontinent

In 2002, the Survey of India began a year-long programme which celebrated 200 years of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, a mammoth cross-country …

Rickshaw pullers get together

On January 5, 2003 hundreds of rickshaw pullers in Hyderabad got together to declare: "Protect our right on roads."

Succour for cancer patients

Many terminally ill cancer patients have found succour in the last stages of their life at this Shanti Avedna Ashram , set up in 1978 by …

Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

The tribe that disappeared

For over five decades, the Durua tribe in Orissa was not recognised because of a mistake in the Centre's list of scheduled tribes made in 1951...

Young states push for growth, ignore environment

The relatively younger states in India are making a big push for industrialisation. In the process, they are eating into fertile agricultural land,…

The morning after

Human excreta is rich in soil nutrients. In a year, one person craps 4.56 kg of nitrogen (n), 0.55 kg phosphorus (p) and 1.28 kg potassium (k)&…

Double take

Scientists are flocking to Umri village in Allahabad district to study the reason it has so many twins. But ALOK GUPTA unravels the twin troubles …

India smiling, are you smiling too?

India is smiling. The question is: are you in, or are you out? Have you signed up? India is smiling. For good reason. Never has living here been …

DIRTY SEX

Every 10 years, the census of India comes out with a damning statistic: the country's abysmal female-male ratio. As per the 2001 census, there …

Climbers on call

Trained to climb palms, they revive Kerala’s coconut industry

A new Northeast magazine

Grassroots Options is about development or the lack of it in the northeast

Just use it

The fibre of the banana tree is a sustainable resource to manufacture paper

Mastering wildlife

A non-governmental organisation starts a post-graduate course on conservation

Plastic avenue

Technologies can help manage waste as well as make hardy roads

Relish it

Staying healthy is not a daunting task if one regularly eats neem dishes

Sound vision

Computer simulations to map noise pollution

The Urban Dwellers (Rights to Forest Lands and Resources) Bill 2005

Look, oil

About 10,000 people scan drains in Delhi's industrial areas: a vital but neglected work force

Just bend it

Pollution under control tests for diesel vehicles are a big farce