Industry wary of entering handicapped market

New, more efficient aids are being developed for the physically handicapped under a government project. The stumbling blocks, however, are the …

Cloudy days for solar cooker

Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …

THE BIG BAD WHITE MEN

To villagers in Bihar, the Dunkel Draft and GATT are not proposals or agreements but a couple of angrez out to play havoc with their lives.

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, …

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 …

Double speak

Lessons of yore

Ancient traditions hold the key to sustainable management of natural resources

Whither civil society?

Tapping potential

WASTE WATCHDOG

Emission standards

Road row

No solution in sight

Doubts sown

Will new deforestation fund management system work?

Sea change

In MP's stance on river linking

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