Playing safe

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

Row over relief

Trouble with doubles

The science of cloning is in the nascent stage

Levelled out: MGNREGA helps bring in more land under cultivation in Ranga Reddy

Having levelled the terrain, farmers for the first time take up agriculture

Classroom: The history of future

The history of future

Bleating cousins

Doubting Dolly

The first pure cloned mammal comes under a cloud

Domesti(cat)ed?

Domestic cat gives birth to a wild one, raises hopes of bringing back extinct species

Cloned dilemma

Researchers try to find the reasons for failing cloning experiments

ANDi the modified

Raising the first genetically modified monkey rekindles debate

The generation gap

Offspring of GM organisms are unable to survive till adulthood

Time to change

Restrictions on use of natural resources in protected areas are driving the local communities dependent on forest produce for their survival to a …

2015: The year that was

Taking stock of developments of the year   

Eugenics in black and white

People with fascism in their genes insist again that high intelligence is a White racial trait

Games genes play

The 'selfish gene' is the one which loses in the long run and in this game, the meek survives

Scared of tests

Tall claims

Land conservation policies replete with flaws

Water, holy and dirty

Wealth from water

River on canvas

Rethink usefulness of trading water: UN human rights expert

States must ensure appropriate legal measures to prevent price speculation of water 

Streams of trouble

As demand for water becomes unmanageable, conflicts are brewing between nations that share transboundary freshwater reserves. Such conflicts are …

Government considering law to recognise tenancy

The Taskforce on Agricultural Development set up by the NITI Aayog strongly recommends creation of a land bank to boost farming