Low cost, high risk

Ecomilestone

Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe

The hunt for new markets

What liberalising trade on environmental goods and services in the WTO is about

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

No one liable for trial mishap

Bias is in the law

Revived acquisition and rehabilitation bills offer little relief

Shock treatment

Nightmarish laws and an insensitive government keeps thousands in the dark

Global grid

Whether it is Asia or Europe, countries find a new mantra: decentralise and electrify

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

India

New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector

We the regulators

As for the future

Is there hope?

Andhra pradesh

TAC betrays tribals at some tribal leaders' instance

Koel-Karo: Jharkhand

Leaders renege, but tribal collectivism holds forth

Singhbhum: Jharkhand

Jungle andolan amidst state repression

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Shale gas: hype and reality

As the world rushes for the gas, scientists gather evidence of its environmental risks

Bill shows the way

Stringent laws in India can control unethical practices

Of forests and wealth

Bytes

In Short

Last mile chaos

New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws