Tatas carry on

Alternative bill

INDIA

NOTICE ISSUED

Cheap fuel, high cost

By lowering the price of diesel, the government has compromised on the health, of its citizens

Plans galore

The Union and the Delhi governments pledge to tackle air pollution

Number jumble

Latest data on solid waste could be a statistician's nightmare

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

TRAI package threatens Internet access in rural areas

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 …

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 …

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: