Which cooking oil do you use?

Before watching this video...take a minute to think about your cooking oil. Down To Earth reported that no oil available in India is 100% …

Making of a toy

On skype with Barry Matthew Kudrowitz, an instructor on toy design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beginning with his favourite, …

Poverty alleviation: investment or mere sop?

After successive reductions, can increased allocations for rural development, agriculture, education and health be effective?

Budgetary provisions are export oriented

The budget seeks to encourage technological change in India, especially in export-oriented industries, and to obtain private funding for …

Not mine, says India

India, the US, and a handful of nations have decided to keep out of the agreement to ban anti personnel landmines

In Brief

Rejection of Dunkel proposals is a farce

Observers say the government's rejection of the Dunkel proposals on seed patenting is just an eyewash.

Birds under threat

Nepal is becoming an important centre for illegal traffic of wild birds

Questioning the system

Filing an environmental audit

A CPCB official on the various tasks an environmental audit entail

The declining forest cover

Dismayed at the state of the forests in tiger reserves, foresters are beginning to realise the need to review the country's conservation strategy.

Struggling for their rights

Local people dependent for their survival on forests, now part of protected areas, are beginning to organise themselves to fight for their rights …

Lost identities

In dire straits!

Plugging pollution

Fuel cell buses to clean air in six smoggiest cities

Habitat crunch

Marauding elephants face villagers' vendetta

Logging banned

The Supreme Court passes order to preserve the vanishing biodiversity of Andaman and Nicobar islands

Licence to aid

Aspen gets power from GSK to produce anti-AIDS drugs

A serious start...

...has been made to convert APSRTC buses to CNG

Clean cruise

Treaty on restricting toxic ship paints reached

Land of contention

The Karnataka government's plan for a biotech park on UAS campus runs into rough weather

New deadline

Supreme Court stands by its decision to change entire bus fleet into CNG mode

Carry on the clamour

The government is coaxed by Maharashtra MLAs to relax noise rules

Genetic crime

GEAC orders destruction of transgenic cotton grown illegally. The affected farmers demand compensation

Nuclear mania

The Union government goes for a nuclear reactor despite protests at a public hearing