Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

History and our notions of ideal and modern

CAMPA funds unlocked

The public relations republic

Right diagnosis, wrong pills

While the Centre has rightfully recognised medical devices as a separate category for policy making, its decision to allow 100 per cent foreign …

Forest dwellers denied rights

Government considering amending Forest Rights Act

Wind is big

GM and the superhero

Timber wastes land

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

Guilty, but bailed

Seven Union Carbide officials get two-year jail term for Bhopal gas leak that has killed 20,000

Value of deforestation?

Perhaps yes, minister

Only plans, no integration

Who is watching GM crops?

As India gets ready to unleash a vast number of genetically modified (GM) food crops, politicians have joined activists in opposing engineered …

Cap on trans fats

News - In Short

How green is the budget?

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

State inaction

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the …

Crowd at the gate

Everyone wants a piece of the pie in the sky  

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Reality check