Small change

The Union budget 1999-2000 does not give enough impetus to the environment sector

Slip up

Discordant note

The unaccounted wealth that leaves our shores

The Indian government invests Rs 34 lakh to educate each IIT graduate. It therefore has the moral authority to get him or her to work for the …

One goal, two roads

Non-governmental organisations are taking the government's proposal for cooperation in poverty alleviation with a healthy pinch of salt

We propose, greens dispose

...thus decried Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, on the issue of power projects which may have let the power into but thrown the ecology in a state …

Act of omission

The government's latest commission on water may end up churning out myopic, big-dam-centred policies

Pilfering citizens' rights

The latest Gowdaspeak is a draft bill that would restrict people's access to courts to agitate against environmental mismanagement

"Ad" nauseum: Science and technology

It is "payback" time for the scientific establishment too! The incumbent Indian government, keen to amass political capital well before the next …

The power game

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly influential in the past 50 years. Awareness of human rights and social and …

Activists want action

Unfinished product

Clocking population

Waking up to old ways

Organic farming has found favour with agriculture officials and scientists.

No teeth

Novel initiative

At your fingertips

Succour to tribals

Farmers in distress

A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations

Redrafted version

Watered down?

The Union government plans to dilute the coastal regulation zone norms

Tunnel - Vision Approach

Yet another tale of missed opportunities

The Year 2000 bug

Diesel pricing

Watershed