Crores to gamble

National fund for research in clean energy ill-utilised

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

Radioactive mirage

India is aggressively shopping for nuclear fuel and technology to ramp up its energy production. What does it mean in terms of cost, technology …

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

Afforestation interrupted

Environment ministry fails to use funds for afforestation, monitor forest diversions: Comptroller and Auditor General

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Till joys

Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze -- for the first time

Give MPs money

They will bankrupt development

Policy-makers, don't run scared

Let green taxes finance your employment guarantee scheme

Federalism or local self-rule?

It's a great shame for India's democracy that we have to choose between the two

In deep water

A national programme on restoring waterbodies is mired in flaws

And the World Bank president is

...Paul Wolfowitz. And you thought you couldn't be surprised

First among equals

Peer review, the long-standing custodian of good science, is now being seen by many as a cabalistic exercise that assures the self-interests of …

Going Dutch

The Netherlands leads the way in sustainable investments -- funds that go towards the setting up of projects that are ecologically viable

Glamorous and profitable, too

Biotechnology, which holds the answers to many persistent problems such as controlling disease and increasing food production, has tremendous …

Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Perseverance pays

Learning from Lorenzo's oil

Reviving Kottayam

The healthy city project is, if nothing else, a pointer to the direction that Indian cities need to move in

Rao wants more opportunities for young talent

Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

On the defensive at Cancun?

Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …

Missionary zeal

The urban renewal mission is likely to bypass or short change the urban poor

RIP Panchayati Raj ministry

The new-found `cooperative federalism' will kill the third tier of government in India

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