New viral disease targets sheep in India

A contagious disease, similar to rinderpest and first observed in the Ivory Coast in 1940, has surfaced among sheep and goats in south India

Is ecology a constraint on female literacy?

Another dam, another issue

All about Alamatti

The Alamatti dispute between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh joins the ranks of the nation's major wrangles over river waters

Rapid siltation

Waterfront Cauvery

Findings of a panel report on crop conditions in the Cauvery river basin and the delta may suggest water pricing as one of the remedial …

Protests galore

Activists protest against mindless development in Uttara Kannada district

NOT TOO UNCLEAN

Seeds of discontent

Monsanto's experiments on "Bollard" cotton come underfire in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

ALMATTI DAM

Check Pollution

Not here

The Union government shoots down a hotel project within a Karnataka national park

The unwanted

Fungal menace

The medicinal neem tree is under attack from an hitherto unknown fungus

Water cooperatives

Ablaze again

Forest fires a recurring problem across the country

Taking the plunge

Bangalore's lakes set to be leased out

Groundwater dip: quantum, quality

Too much iron, nitrate, hardness, coliform in Bangalore

Easy way out

Karnataka's denotification move to pacify naxalites

In Court

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

Villegers blueprint their own development

MYRADA moves a step forward in rural appraisal programmes, emphasising the necessity of involving villagers in their own development.

Breaking the rural barrier

The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the …

Helping children find work at home

Gramashrama, a children-based organisation in Karnataka, is trying to understand the causes of migration and prevent the exodus of youngsters …

By book or by crook..

... has been the motto of an erring plant in Karnataka. But recently, the local fisherfolk scored a victory by forcing it to agree to install an …