Boost to ecofriendly farming

A department of biotechnology project to popularise the production of biofertilisers has recently been approved.

No time to lose

The Union environment minister says that a comprehensive bill to protect India's biodiversity is on the anvil. But whether it can be a timely, …

Lethal gambit

The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health

Plastic surgery

The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to …

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 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …

Incomplete irrigation projects overshoot budget

The state governments' failure to complete irrigation projects has led to an escalation of their combined cost by close to a whopping one lakh …

Saved at last?

The contours of repression

The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project

Much ado over nothing

Only participatory technology is appropriate

Everybody coughs in Kumaon

... but the government has done nothing to monitor the prevalence of tuberculosis in the area.

Needed: institutions that deliver

Great expectations

MEF under fire

For a fistful of dollars

The boundary shrinks

Double speak

Lessons of yore

Ancient traditions hold the key to sustainable management of natural resources

Whither civil society?

Tapping potential

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Emission standards

Money for monitoring