Cotton conundrum

The powers that be are hanging fire on Bt cotton despite long and intensive research. Indira Khurana delves into the baffling issue

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Bengaluru's burning issue

The city finally wakes up to waste management, but bumbles into incineration plants

Tigers on the prowl

Tigers have killed 16 people across the country in the past two months

Supreme Court allows reopening of 90 more mines in Karnataka subject to conditions

Leases of 51 mines cancelled; embargo on new leases lifted

Karnataka civil society to protest against panchayati raj Bill

Opposition says provisions draconian; gives powers to bureaucrats powers to remove panchayat president and members

Environment ministry’s desperate attempts to suppress expert panel report on Western Ghats

Defies Information Commission’s order and obtains stay from Delhi High Court to keep the report out of public domain

DTE coverage on Western Ghats

Endosulfan: India in denial

Agriculture minister claims several states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

IN SHORT

Chikungunya not fatal: doctors

Supa dam displaced lease out lands to paper mill

Protest for Kali river water

OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT

June 30, 2004: The India Eco-Development Project -- a project meant to enhance the country's biodiversity and provide people living inside and …

Our daily dose of antibiotics

As dairy farmers inject antibiotics in their livestock, chances are high that these are passed on to humans through milk, finds Delhi-based non-…

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

How Bellary was laid waste

Karnataka’s Lokayukta Santosh Hegde’s report is a sordid story on the rise of India’s mining poster boy, Bellary. The …

Mavallipura village resists attempts of Bengaluru municipal corporation to restart closed landfill

Garbage piles in city as two other landfills close operations due to public protests

Traditional communities can mine sand in coastal areas: MoEF

Ministry order has no provision to curb illegal sand mining in river beds

ILLEGAL QUARRYING

IN SHORT

Reality check

Drug firms, retailers on warpath

Pharma companies say chemists refusing to store essential drugs; retailers deny the charge

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns

Guarantee of 14 companies under solar mission encashed

NVVN recovers Rs 28 crore from erring firms