For a rational policy

The minister says yes

Small change

The Union budget 1999-2000 does not give enough impetus to the environment sector

Proper channel online

Software helps Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation tackle public complaints more efficiently

Another ornamental scheme

The proposed National Rural Employment Guarantee Act threatens to become just that

India to regulate broadcast news?

Pilfering citizens' rights

The latest Gowdaspeak is a draft bill that would restrict people's access to courts to agitate against environmental mismanagement

The unaccounted wealth that leaves our shores

The Indian government invests Rs 34 lakh to educate each IIT graduate. It therefore has the moral authority to get him or her to work for the …

One goal, two roads

Non-governmental organisations are taking the government's proposal for cooperation in poverty alleviation with a healthy pinch of salt

We propose, greens dispose

...thus decried Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, on the issue of power projects which may have let the power into but thrown the ecology in a state …

Act of omission

The government's latest commission on water may end up churning out myopic, big-dam-centred policies

"Ad" nauseum: Science and technology

It is "payback" time for the scientific establishment too! The incumbent Indian government, keen to amass political capital well before the next …

The power game

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly influential in the past 50 years. Awareness of human rights and social and …

At your fingertips

Succour to tribals

Farmers in distress

A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations

Redrafted version

As condescending as ever

The government's draft tribal policy is insensitive to most matters concerning tribals

Activists want action

Unfinished product

Clocking population

Waking up to old ways

Organic farming has found favour with agriculture officials and scientists.

No teeth

Novel initiative

Watered down?

The Union government plans to dilute the coastal regulation zone norms