TRAI package threatens Internet access in rural areas

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

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.

Trade Unions

A working government?

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 '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 …

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

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 …

Much ado over nothing

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 …

Only participatory technology is appropriate

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.

Needed: institutions that deliver

Great expectations

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 …

MEF under fire

For a fistful of dollars

The boundary shrinks

Saved at last?

Sour gripes

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