Old Batteries New Rules

The Indian government comes out with the draft rules for recycling lead acid batteries. Their effectiveness is questionable

In reverse gear

The Mashelkar Committee's interim report on the country's auto fuel policy proves to be a major setback for the CNG campaign

Forest dwellers denied rights

Government considering amending Forest Rights Act

Blowing out a tradition

The ban on conch shell trading has sent the industry into a tizzy

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

A public eyewash

The inspection and maintenance programme is nothing more than testing tailpipes of vehicles in India. The government should stop wasting …

Accountable automatically

Emission warranty and recall system have compelled the automobile manufacturers in the US and Sweden to take serious anti-pollution measures

Weed them out

The challenge is how to isolate "gross polluters" from the vehicle fleet and send them back to the manufacturers

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

GM and the superhero

Is Naik serious about Auto Fuels Policy?

The climate-forest continuum

Same indifference

Wasting Away

Despite the deadline for hospitals to set up bio-medical waste disposal methods having expired, nothing has changed

Fighting for a cause

K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. …

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Dinosaur age ministers

India

We the regulators

Meta Outstripped

The pace of construction at a controversial copper plant in Goa has not slackened despite protests from the people and the church

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people