A PEOPLE'S VERDICT

Stir bears fruit

Agro-watershed

Disincentive for defaulters

Proposal to tax erring industrialists for CETPs in Delhi

China

SC not to budge on CNG issue

Apex court slams Mashelkar committee report

Driving out petrol cars

Bold clean-air campaign launched in Italian city

Exporting toxicity

Chemicals banned in the US as poison are shipped to developing nations as pesticides

Tourist revulsion

Steeped in pollution, Ranchi lake is no more a crowd-puller

Committees vs committees

Can rubber stamps serve public interests?

The Bill of contentions

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Stricter laws

EU plays safe

Proposed EU law has mixed implications for India

Popular medicine

Farmers say 'no' to Ranbaxy expansion plans

Business as usual

The EU has not learnt anything from its failure at Cancun

In Short

REACH constricted

Tea break

New EU import rule, a crisis for Sri Lankan tea export

Cola and the paddy farmer

Whose water is it, anyway?

No land, no money

An Act meant to financially help tenant farmers of suicide-prone Andhra has failed them

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

Lost in woods

Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh

Streamlining autonomy

Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states

Modified decision

Sri Lanka delays imposing a ban on GM foodstuffs