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
Why Periyar reserve is India's best-managed protected area
Sanjayan Kumar, deputy director of Periyar Tiger Reserve, speaks to Tiasa Adhya on the place being awarded the best managed protected area in India
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
Include millets in PDS for food and nutritional security, demand scientists
Area under cultivation of millets is declining in spite of national Food Security Mission
Ethics on trial
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…
Rights without benefits
Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, …
Letters
Eye on the storm
Cyclone Phailin has not taken many lives but has left behind a trail of destruction that severely cripples people’s livelihood. What did it …
Gutkha sympathiser
Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others
India’s coal power fleets under-utilised, says report, amid auctions
Performance of coal power fleets declined by 21 per cent from 78 per cent in 2010 — a historical low
Contest for pesticide
Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament
Solar energy is everybody's business
Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it
Kind to Cash
A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.
Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …