Organisers awaiting funds for science congress

Chidambaram pinpoints targets ahead of polls

Offers budget sops to women, youth and the poor

Voiceless representatives

With market taking charge, MPs can do precious little to shape the Budget

World Bank gets jittery

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies

Funds for more forests

The Centre plans to set up a banking institution for afforestation programmes

An official fiasco

A ritual offer of nothing

On June 16, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's exhortation to "implement the river conservation programme with a greater sense of urgency and …

No greenhorn

FM focuses on political environment

Science against poverty

Sudev Barar on open-source software

Nuchem is a company in Delhi that develops and sells water/effluent treatment technologies, chemicals and laminated panels. Sudev Barar, its …

Looking beyond privatisation

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Future power

Common intent

Some uncommon proposals in UPA's maiden budget

Deluge of foreign patent applications in India

ICMR to get more funds, power

ADB officials quit protesting policies

Health schemes caught between government & World Bank

Centre wakes up to Naxal menace

Environmentally unsound

Union budget 2002-03: all the right noises, all the wrong measures

Issues in privatisation and commercialisation of water

Book>> Water: Private, Limited - Issues in Privatisation, Corporation and Commercialisation of Water Sector in India by Gaurav Dwivedi, …

New science policy brings in PPP

Makes provision for public funding of corporate research and development

Farmers feel left out

The budget is more concerned about the consumer than the grower

In the tax bracket again

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items -- tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a …

Healthy advice to pharma companies

Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare

CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only