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A peoples charter

... for clean air

Not welcome

...says the Union government to the World Commission on dams

Not here

The Union government shoots down a hotel project within a Karnataka national park

A working government?

INDIA

No subsidy for LPG

Down the drain

The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security

No LPG for vehicles

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

Resource rift

Between Nagaland, centre

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

MoEF's flip-flop

Prop review

Panel set up to study MSPs

Sapped

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

TRAI package threatens Internet access in rural areas

Wake-up time

The government of India finally includes environmental assessment in the national economic survey

Green money

Financial institutions may soon lend a helping hand to the environment sector, says the Indian environment minister

The power of the zephyr

The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity

Lifting of ban earns UP government brickbats

The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to lift the ban on tree-felling in the Garhwal Himalaya has brought on it the wrath of both the Central …

Blame it on the foreign hand

The government's policy of screening long-staying foreigners for AIDS is an attempt to find a scapegoat for a national health problem

New Bill aims to restrict groundwater use

The government is preparing legislation to regulate the use of tubewells because water-tables in the country are falling rapidly. But the …

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

Industry wary of entering handicapped market

New, more efficient aids are being developed for the physically handicapped under a government project. The stumbling blocks, however, are the …