Contract killers

The Microsoft way

Wherein an Indian firm using pirated Microsoft software here is sued in the US by California state for using unfair trade advantage

True measure of growth

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Adrift and Isolated

A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let-down for the fiskerfolk

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Cola major gets a taste of panchayat power

A multi-billion-dollar transnational corporation has had to blink first in an eyeball-to-eyeball dispute with an obscure panchayat of Kerala. On …

Cola and the paddy farmer

Whose water is it, anyway?

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

Degree of commerce

Vedanta gets tracts of thorium-rich land along the Orissa coast for a university. Allegations fly

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

Soor Sarovar bird sanctuary in peril

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Spam in fishing net

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

Field science

Everybody loves waterbody

Amid murder of an activist, 4,000 missing ponds and 195 FIRs on encroachments in East Kolkata Wetlands, West Bengal mulls a wetland policy

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

He upheld human rights and dismissed PILs