"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