Update

Hope or hype?

CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge

Narrow view

Expert opinion ignored in talks on Jarawa tribe's future

Little to show for crores of rupees spent

Inefficient use funds, not lack of resources, is responsible for the failure of scientific departments to meet their targets, says a recent CAG …

Substance Abuse

The Montreal Protocol was meant to eliminate Ozone-depleting substances. It is turning out to be a technology trap for Indian industry. And …

Making polluters pay

Despite bureaucratic hurdles, a non-governmental organisation hope to bring to book an erring paper mill in Punjab

Sealed fate

The de-sealing drive of the Delhi government is yet to take-off as a bureaucratic maze greets factory owners

Orissa faces acute food insecurity

It is well known that farmers of Orissa are not the 'privileged ones'. What is not known, albeit, is the fact that their plight is all set to …

Large-scale child deaths in tribal Maharashtra

from April to August this year, almost 300 children fell prey to malnutrition in just two blocks (Akkalkua and Taloda) of Maharashtra's Nandurbar …

Bottled water norms not in place

On April 1 this year the revised norms for bottled water should have come into force, but didn't. By missing the deadline -- which ironically …

New poverty estimate scrapped

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology

Let states decide

Misplaced emphasis on security

The Salwa Judum judgement and the Union home ministry

Pollution destroys crops

A lot of chaff

That's what the national agricultural policy is all about

Killer hospitals

Ban on felling lifted

Baalu deaf to CITES

'Saving the tiger ranks very low on the minister's list of priorities'

Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

A bill in question

The Andhra Pradesh government's move to 'legalise' JFM kicks off a row

Bill of wrongs

In overhauling the wildlife act, MEF could ride roughshod over people's rights

Junkedat last

Sans safeguards?

The newly amended patents bill is replete with loopholes

Data-wise

A database is imperative, yet is nowhere in sight

No sale

Project to sell river water in Kerala shelved