Only people's participation in eco-projects can combat corruption

Suresh P Prabhu looks back on his tenure as Union minister for environment and forests and speaks to Lian Chawii and Kazimuddin Ahmed on the …

What a waste

The Union government's move to invest in waste-to-energy technologies draws flak from many quarters

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Tapping wastewater

Put into effect in earnest, the law on wastewater recycling can provide lasting relief to a parched Delhi. samreen farooqui delves into the issue

Agony of the waiting

There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits.…

Kingfisher and Cronies

The deadly public sector

Committees vs committees

Can rubber stamps serve public interests?

AC makers unsure about gas import rule

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

Water may shift from State to Concurrent List

Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June

Fabric of nature

Organic cotton is much in demand across the globe. But lack of support from government agencies may impede its growth

Shell says it didn’t lie to court about oil spill in Niger Delta

Sells off more of its Nigerian operations

Trial or error?

The Indian government grants permission for trials of transgenic cotton

Blind to danger

The government turns a Nelson's eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

Ublic outcry greets uranium mining project in AP

"There is radiation everywhere on earth. Mining in Nalgonda will not increase it." This comment of S D Prasad, adviser to public sector …

Forest states want money in lieu of felling

On August 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh made a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a fund-generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, …

Exhausting Practices

Prescribed as the antidote for all problems related to vehicular pollution, Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates have been an obsession …

The right call?

Norms to curb mobile radiation do little to assuage people’s fear

Black city

Darkness and pollution enveloped Delhi on the second day of the new year

Skewed solutions

The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain

Move to leash NGOs

Government and political parties see NGOs with suspicion. Arm-twisting has already begun

‘Energy conservation is a moving target’

A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001. Most provisions of the law are yet to be implemented properly. Ajay …