No subsidy for LPG

Down the drain

The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security

No LPG for vehicles

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

Resource rift

Between Nagaland, centre

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

MoEF's flip-flop

Prop review

Panel set up to study MSPs

Sapped

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

The power of the zephyr

The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity

Lifting of ban earns UP government brickbats

The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to lift the ban on tree-felling in the Garhwal Himalaya has brought on it the wrath of both the Central …

Blame it on the foreign hand

The government's policy of screening long-staying foreigners for AIDS is an attempt to find a scapegoat for a national health problem

New Bill aims to restrict groundwater use

The government is preparing legislation to regulate the use of tubewells because water-tables in the country are falling rapidly. But the …

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

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Industry wary of entering handicapped market

New, more efficient aids are being developed for the physically handicapped under a government project. The stumbling blocks, however, are the …

Cloudy days for solar cooker

Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …

THE BIG BAD WHITE MEN

To villagers in Bihar, the Dunkel Draft and GATT are not proposals or agreements but a couple of angrez out to play havoc with their lives.

Boost to ecofriendly farming

A department of biotechnology project to popularise the production of biofertilisers has recently been approved.

No time to lose

The Union environment minister says that a comprehensive bill to protect India's biodiversity is on the anvil. But whether it can be a timely, …

Lethal gambit

The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health

Plastic surgery

The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to …

Wake-up time

The government of India finally includes environmental assessment in the national economic survey

Green money

Financial institutions may soon lend a helping hand to the environment sector, says the Indian environment minister

The 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …