'Roughing it out in Lebanon was futile'
Selvakumar Sounthararani, a 36-year-old woman from the war-scarred northern town of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, worked in Beirut, Lebanon, as a …
Coastal zone management notification '07 Better of bitter fare?
report>> Coastal Zone Management Notification '07 Better of Bitter fare? by M Menon, S Rodrigues and A Sridhar Produced for the Post-…
India after Gandhi: The history of the world's largest democracy
Book>> India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha Picador Macmillan Delhi, 2007
September 9, 2001
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Higher royalty payments offered as bait to MNCs
In an effort to improve the quality of technology coming into the country, the Indian government has decided to remove the low ceiling on royalty …
Environmental governance in India pushes industries to face stricter pollution norms
The last one year of environmental regulation in India has shown many improvements. But a lot remains to be done
The dilemma of green funding
Can chemical companies be given the green investment pat simply for developing environment-friendly products?
A green front is not enough
It is time to question whether the new green urgency of big business is a genuine change of heart
In trouble again
Supreme Court issues notices against closure of final tunnels of Tehri dam; conditions unfulfilled
Industries get long rope to rein pollution
There is a green tinge to Manmohan Singh's proposals, but he has failed to counter fallouts from liberalisation, such as waste from the food-…
Simmering
Pottery units, papad -makers, leather workers, furniture makers, even dance bars: Dharavi is a bustling economy now threatened by builder-driven …
Of biome blues
Burgeoning populations notwithstanding, humankind seems in danger of being wiped out. This is the inference one draws from Our Stolen Future , …
An Old tree and some wise men
Unsustainable practices seem to be a suicidal trait in the fashionable development concepts of today
Share-ware
A usual story: a transnational company develops a profitable product based on the resources and knoledge preserved by an indigenous community …
A healthy turn
Ubiquitous web crawler Google will no longer flash ads of unlicensed pharmacies, which have used the Internet to sell millions of doses of …
Life industry goldrush
Trade in bio-industrial products is on in full swing, conjuring up visions of El dorado. But whether the Indian industry can embark on this …
Limits of growth
Book>> The Sick Planet, Corporate Food and Medicine by Stan Cox HarperCollins, Delhi 2009 Price Rs 295
New chip on the firmament
A microchip developed by a US firm will greatly increase the working speed of personal computers. But the chip's long-term success will depend on …
Temperamental fabric
The weather may be unpredictable but this new fabric quickly adjusts to its mood swings and maintains a balance between your body temperature and …
Return of a fabric
Instant success, total failure and stupendous return -polyester completes the cycle and comes out of oblivion to hit the market once again
Chaos-in cyberspace
If not checked out immediately, the 'year 2000 problem' could be a potential time bomb capable of demolishing our smug cyber operations
In cooler light
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, well... laser was, naturally, thought to be a superheater. But, soon it will be used as …
Identity? No more crisis
A new version of the memory cards could spell a radical shift in our notions of identity cards, passports or quite simply any kind of …
An agenda of incoherence
The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment
Southern solutions?
Sustainable industry could emerge in the South if it does not repeat the follies committed by Northern nations during their industrialisation process
