Push for neem-based fertilisers

CEC to stay, says SC

Centre to popularise CFLs

Freeze on special economic zones lifted

No tax cuts for pesticide industry in 2007 budget

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

India gets ready with national plan on climate change

Trial or error?

The Indian government grants permission for trials of transgenic cotton

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, …

The Bharat Nirman outpour

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

Energy draft policy report has several loopholes

Ministers fail to reach consensus on R&R policy

Wavering

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

‘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 …

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

Salt of the earth

Bombay HC stays Centre's notification on iodised salt

Update

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

We plan to involve panchayats in monitoring pollution levels

Sheila Rani Chunkat has recently been appointed chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). She spoke to Binayak Das on how …

Forest eviction issue gets thornier

Promises and lies

Supreme Court stays government's sham deal of promising land to tribals

SEZs get a social face