Healthy step

Fine balance

Draconian bill

Order, Order

Powerful words that provided the base for judicial activism in India. How potent are the judgments delivered in favour of the environment? Will …

A beaten path

Suresh Prabhu is by no means breaking new ground. He is merely mouthing the same promise made time and again, but never fulfilled, by his predecessors

Forcing task

Voluntary organisations decide to take to task irrational and outdated government legislations

Splendid isolation

The people of Iceland have been living in genetic isolation for the last 1,000 years. Now their government wants to sell their genes

TALL CLAIMS

Order, Order

One step forward

In safe territory

The Centre gets absolute authority over the country's rich biodiversity under an MEF draft

Native claims

The Australian government grants two Aboriginal claims

Polio outbreak'

New cases in Africa trigger alarm

Polluter lands behind bars

Computers for all

Inventors gain

But the South feels cheated

Legal biopiracy

Pakistani citizens left holding the bag

The four pillars of panchayati raj

Patent tactics

The US applies pressure over new patents law on drugs in Brazil amidst stringent criticism

CHINA SEES RED

In Focus

CATCHING 'EM ALL

In Focus

SECONDHAND ISSUE