Who's afraid of the Kyoto Protocol?
Russian president Putin?
Pests behind Codex standards
Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators
Lies, well told
In reel life, when things go wrong, the director takes recourse to a re-take. Then there are the stunt-men, who stand in for the hero when the …
Doomed! Carry on flushing
two years ago the Supreme Court fixed 31 March 2003 as the deadline for cleaning the Yamuna. It's April 2003 now and unbelievably, the river that …
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Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'
Debating GM crops: Let sound science, and so good sense, inform it
The Paris-based International Council for Science, a federation of more than 100 national science academies, has come out with the biggest review …
Another world is possible
Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …
The verdict is out
Consumer rights receive a fizzy fillip
Kyoto in trouble
Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian …
Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later
The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the …
Default drinking water
'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…
SC notice to Chhattisgarh on the way tribal advisory councils function
Centre issues circular clarifying governors have special role in supervising governance of tribal areas to ensure partial autonomy