States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Faulty data, poor monitoring

A trading scheme for air pollutants could face the usual problem of implementation

Mining bill gets it right

Programme plugged

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

For India, with fizz

JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health

Draft EIA notification favours industry over environment

Court ruling on forest rights cheers Van Gujjars

Cattle deaths at Bt cotton fields trigger biosafety fear

Petty squabbles signify ill for the forest rights question

Healthy move

It is misinformation that chareterizes the tiger debate

CAMPA bill defeated

Crisis of governance

People in urban scheduled areas suffer as Centre fails to legislate

Will seeds bill make it this time?

Opposition parties say the draft is still not farmer-friendly

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

Crisis staved off

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

ANNA TO BINAYAK AND TATA