Animal power

New panel to modify energy Acts

Placing the onus

New bill contains provision on making US industries liable to report their emissions

Gas about oil

EPCA comes out with parking management plan for Delhi

In report, agency flags free parking on public land, multiplicity of agencies to be key cause of congestion and parking menace

Encouraging orphan drugs in India

India needs to formulate an atrractive law to spur development of drugs for rare diseases

'We have to create a culture of energy efficiency'

VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR, minister of state (independent charge) for non-conventional energy sources, tells KUSHAL P S YADAV

Energy draft policy report has several loopholes

Renewable policies

Conducive policy environment necessary to take renewable projects to the people

Decoding Indo-US nuke deal

Here is how demand aggregation can improve rooftop solar installation in India

Demand aggregation can address the main challenges to RTS deployment — low end-user awareness & increased consumer acquisition price …

Privacy vs pandemic: Govt tracking of mobile phones could be a potent weapon against COVID-19

Do we want governments to assemble a searchable database of locations of almost every citizen 

Drug resistance finds mention in new National Health Policy

India does not have robust data on antibiotic resistance, but the available records show that the issue needs immediate response

'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'

Tough-talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable

Food security ordinance: where we stand

New water law

Discontinuous functions and environmental regulation

Environmental economics generally employs marginal logic. This is often useful for conceptual demonstrations even if not always literally …

Meat industry has always opposed and influenced dietary guidelines in US

Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics, speaks on sustainable diet and interference of meat and sugar industry in food policy …

W(h)ither Indian science?

High-profile science need not be the cornerstone of Indian science policy. What is required is to give more thrust to existing methodologies and …

Renewed interest

Wind energy projects pick up steam in Rajasthan

Ecotax policy rejected

New year blow

Cess on diesel car

Desperate measures

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…