Farmers against even modest power rate hike

State ministers are giving the agriculture sector a breather by ignoring the Prime Minister's call to stop subsidising power supply and agreeing …

Streamlining forest protection law

States are complaining that project clearance delays are turning out to be the worst fallout of the Forest Conservation Act, which has otherwise …

Same problem, differing approaches

The government is roping in NGOs in the fight against pollution whereas industry is trying cleaner manufacturing processes

For the people

Grassroot bodies should pressurise the state government to effectively implement the new Act on tribal self-rule passed by the Centre

Farmer's right

A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers

Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation-wide water …

Faulty rehabilitation policy

On february 26, yet another full-page advertisement appeared in national dailies as a part of the ruling coalition's feel-good blitz in the build-…

An ad a day will keep voters away

How bizarre can a government policy decision get? India's first national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for people affected by …

Gene check

Sounding warning bells

Diluting standards

Cleaning up Mt Everest

The merit factor

Is ecology a constraint on female literacy?

Tatas carry on

Alternative bill

Shedding the load

The government proposes reductions in subsidies on power, irrigation and higher education

Power play

Trade Unions

In Focus

No consideration

FOLLOW UP

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