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Tourism deal

WHO's problem

As most developed countries shy away from increasing their contribution, a cash-strapped World Health Organization is forced to rely on private …

‘There is not enough milk’

Amrita Patel was part of the White Revolution that made India self-sufficient in milk. She joined Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’…

On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn't? In 2003, two editorials in Down …

Private affairs

The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) -- the grouping of the large and most powerful industries -- was …

Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

How is South Asia faring on energy?

A new publication on energy in the region raises critical questions

Ambanis play power games with nuclear energy and ethanol

Why waste a chance?

Nigeria shuts down private hospitals

Keeping cancer alive

Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. Sonal Matharu reports with photographer …

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

"Lessons in waste disposal from Lahore"

Ata-Ul-Haq is CEO of Green Technology Environmental Corporation, which set up Pakistan's first mega composting plant in Lahore in 2006. He …

Mexicans protest energy reform plan

UK okays new generation nuclear plants

Reservoir of dams

Arunachal Pradesh is awarding hydroelectric projects to private companies at the breakneck speed of one every nine days without proper scrutiny. …

The inviolate plot

New parameters for identifying pristine forests may make them more vulnerable

‘Commercial interest cannot drive lake conservation in Bengaluru’

High Court panel frowns on handing over of city lakes to private companies

Meghalaya limestone quarries closed

Of fixing price for natural gas

Port workers in Gujarat protest move to privatise four ports

Non-profit diseases

There is a logic to the idea of neglected diseases. Historically the diseases poor people get--largely in the poorer parts of the world--haven't …

Battle over oil, coal & forests