BIHAR GOVT CRITICISED

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New norms

...are on the anvil for Gujarat's Amalakhari river

New tiger reserve

LAX ATTITUDE

Driven to death

Brakes on dumping

Sell-off norms

Rules being framed for disinvestment of natural resource-based PSUs

Water mismanagement

Forest facts: delving deeper

'Green Indicators 2004' makes government's complex and unwieldy forest statistics coherent

A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

Healing touch

House committee submits report on Dal lake's revival

The shadow of a calamity

Among disasters, drought is the easiest to predict and manage. The Indian Meteorological Department's forecast of a "below normal" monsoon in …

Spectrum allocation in India: journey so far

The Centre has set the stage for the largest spectrum auction ever. Let’s look back at the developments leading to government’s …

Government attention sets pulses spinning

Pulse production in India is touching an all-time high, but the benefits are reaching only a few because most farmers are ignorant about the new, …

Acknowledging the role of the arbitrator

The Nuer tribals of Sudan settled their disputes in more organised and effective a manner than modern societies

Bandwagon role for joint forestry

Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new …

Government policy wrong, says scientist

The government is on the wrong track and it's infected blood, not sexual intercourse, which transmits AIDS in the country

A step forward

A new draft has been prepared by the Union ministry of environment and forests to draw up a legislation regulating the country's biodiversity. …

Bhopal revisited

The government department to provide relief to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy may be closed down

Pesticide politics

As the endosulfan controversy erupts afresh, the Kerala government finds itself in a tight spot

Northeast ahoy!

Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has grand plans to illuminate the whole country by now harnessing hydropower from the northeast region. His …

Tracking India's wealth

India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year …

Farming out the problem

A recent report that the Union ministry of environment and forests may be "exploring the possibility of allowing private persons to breed wild …

The monsoon always catches the government unawares

First there was the mounting suspense. All of India awaited with bated breath the arrival of the south west monsoon. Would it arrive? Miraculously,…