The boundary shrinks

Saved at last?

Money for monitoring

Contempt notice

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Incomplete planning

Occupational hazards

Yielding to pressure

Commission for healthonomics

Eyewash

Delhi's long-overdue water price hike

Un'tidy' relocation

Tamil Nadu's post-tsunami coastal regulation bid is misdirected

Cloud over CIC post

Transparent selection demanded for information commissioners

Suffocating budget

Yashwant Sinha's budget threatens to destroy the quality of urban air and endanger the lives of millions in Indian cities

A bean full of problems

In utter disregard of environmental and health safety norms, the Indian government has okayed a deal for import of soybean to satisfy oil …

National Clean Air Programme is a half hearted policy

India may have announced the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), but neither does it have any legal backing nor financial support, making it a …

Languishing in the cans

Films on successful technological projects and innovative government schemes have failed simply because there has been no effort to show them to …

Super panel proposed to promote research

The setting-up of a national research body and reviving the cabinet committee on science and technology are among the steps the government is …

Examining poor showing of Indian industry

INDIAN INDUSTRIALISATION: STRUCTURE AND POLICY ISSUES Editors: Arun Ghosh, K K Subrahmanian, Mridul Eapen, Haseeb A Drabu Publisher: Oxford …

Tatas canvass public support for prawn project

As the Tatas try to counter public opposition to their prawn farm, the environment ministry looks on passively.

Ministries clash over project clearances

Despite an acute power shortage in the country, the ministries of power and environment find each other the main obstacles in achieveing their …

Kamal Nath buys time on Chilika

Environment minister Kamal Nath has been caught in the firing line on the Chilika Aquatic Farms project. His order for an environmental impact …

Protect the tuskers damn the carvers

In its enthusiasm to protect tuskers from being killed, the government has extended the worldwide ban on ivory trade to India as well. Left in …

Sour gripes

Non-governmental organisations face the wrath of the government for exposing the loopholes in its wildlife policy

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