"The digital divide is also about a divide in the mindset"

Sam Pitroda, regarded by many as the father of India’s telecom revolution, was in India recently for the Fourth Annual Baramati Initiative …

Waiting for the toll?

Asbestos mortality data makes Japan go for total ban by 2008

Cacophony in Telecom sector

Tug-of-war between basic service providers (MTNL, Reliance, Tata) and cellular operators has intensified after wireless in local loop (WLL) launch

Retrograde

Projected future: more clearance, less environment

Pesticide politics

As the endosulfan controversy erupts afresh, the Kerala government finds itself in a tight spot

Watered-down governance

Rajasthan police kills more farmers demanding water, this time in Tonk district

Planning Commission set captive mines free for use by steel plants

Captive mines get green light

"Future of local population rests on tiger-related tourism"

Jim Knight, UK's minister for biodiversity, landscape and rural affairs, responds to Kushal Pal Singh Yadav's queries on the British government's …

Soft drinks do contain pesticides

The Joint Parliamentary Committee has finally delivered its verdict. Affirming that the Centre for Science and Environment's findings about the …

Stubble trouble

Post-harvest clumps in rice fields burn and increasepollution in Punjab

Book: Windpower Development in India

Book>>Windpower development in india edited by G M Pillai Wise, Pune 2007

EU proposes

One Track Mind

The Union government's ineptness in dealing with technology finds a new victim: Delhi's metro rail project

A ritual offer of nothing

On June 16, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's exhortation to "implement the river conservation programme with a greater sense of urgency and …

Taj corridor project compromises heritage

Sadly, preserving Taj Mahal appeared to be the last thing on the authorities' mind when they allowed land reclamation work to continue for six …

A mountain to climb

Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues

Unmasked

Mine games

Haryana's politics-mining nexus plays havoc with the environment (Read full article)

Pesticide industry thriving on legal loopholes

The CSE's recent expos has blown the lid off the bottled water industry's tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has …

The two-degree shift

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

India's new solar system

Not just water

Mineral or drinking water? Government sets new standards to reorganise the bottled water industry

Forest states want money in lieu of felling

On August 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh made a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a fund-generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, …

US bank uses carbon smokescreen

EXIM Bank nearly denied funds to Reliance’s coal-fired plant