Hidden industry hand

Attempts are on to derail UN initiative to declare noncommunicable diseases a global priority

Auto yes to coal

High powered panel recommends freeing coal blocks in forests

Salvage science

Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister seeks more funds and education reforms in science sector

The new Money plant

The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India's burgeoning oil import bill. And …

New milky way

Private players are entering the Indian dairy market in a big way. Dairy cooperatives, which ushered in the White Revolution, need to expand and …

Nepal needs SEZ booster for its floundering economy

Left wing parties prove a major hindrance in enacting SEZ law

When flu turns fatal

In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

Drowned in power

Hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh sell electricity at a loss due to lack of buyers

Ponty, buses and PPPs

Letters

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 …

Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

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

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

Battle over oil, coal & forests

Dhamaal Growth

NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied

Ash flies in the face of power plan

Odisha gears up for more power generation but has no action plan for disposing of fly ash

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules