Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

When 'calamity' strikes

Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …

Simply Put: COVID-19 and Indian media

Celebrities liable for commercials

Consumer protection council sets up committee to regulate contents of advertisements

"Waste minimisation, a training manual"

Community radio creates new waves in Uttarakhand

Rattled by the flood disaster last year, popular community radio voices have resolved to take up issues to safeguard their surroundings from …

Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report

At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here's more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations …

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

Coke choke

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Promises and lies

Supreme Court stays government's sham deal of promising land to tribals

Drought is spreading fast

Dry areas increase by 250 pe cent in 30 years

Uganda protests over sugar plantation on forestland

Springs of life India's water resources

The West is holier than thou on China

Industries can harm health in many ways: Here are 3 that aren’t so obvious

Some products and practices are directly linked to avoidable ill health, planetary damage and social and health inequity, especially by …

Probing a pesticide tragedy

Laboratory tests nail the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The state government sets up an inquiry committee

Climate change now a corporate issue

Stop looking to government

Individual initiatives can go a long way in solving the energy crisis  

Elusive cause

History and our notions of ideal and modern

The public relations republic

‘I’m always in the opposition’

Lawyer and activist, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, who is spearheading the battle against the thriving shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, speaks to …

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

Ramadoss does a turnaround on cola controversy

Forest commission report on forest rights bill validates government's stand

Forest commission fails to innovate