How viable is nuclear energy

>>The Power of Promise, Examining Nuclear Energy in India, by M V Ramana, Penguin, Rs 699

Balarama Digest: Kid stuff?

If you think free publicity, like 'free lunch', is a no-no in this newly liberalised world of ours, you have got it all wrong. Take a dekko at …

Filtering the fine print

The confusion resulting from reports about pesticides in bottled water and soft drinks saw a few companies sneak-ride upon the concerns of the …

It's official now

Price mechanism is the only way to discourage the use of dirty fuels

Self medication - buyers beware

Australian doctors have warned Internet users against buying drugs online. They caution that many "health" websites do not provide adequate …

Website review: http://www.saukaryam.org

Vishakhapatnam residents can register and verify births and deaths online and get the certificates delivered to their residences. Payment of …

How effective?

Hunger is big business

Bush reacts to Lancet study

Indian villages refuse telephone connections due to naxal problem

Suspect diagnosis

World Bank's take on Indian forestry sector motivated

Is the Babudom reformed?

Waterscapes: Cultural politics of a natural resource

Book>> Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource Edited by Amita Baviskar Permanent Black New Delhi 2007

Coping with floods in climate change

Before the Deluge>> Coping with Floods in Climate Change • by International Rivers Network • New York • 200

Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development

Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007

The kuhls of Kangra by J Mark Baker

Book>> the kuhls of kangra by J Mark Baker Permanent Black New Delhi, 2005

Book review: Oil on the brain

Book>> Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli Broadway Books New York 2008

Book review: 'A quick travel through the countryside'

Book>> Red Sun; Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty

Informal economy in perspective

Book>>At Work in the Informal Economy of India: A Perspective from the Bottom Up>>by Jan Bremen, Oxford University Press, Rs 995

Origins of Indo-European languages

Now evolutionary biologists have jumped in where linguists fear to tread, namely the stormy question of when and where Indo-European languages …

Fresh look: Video Review

Changing Currents (six films, 26-minute each) produced by TVE International 2003 English

EU legislation - The wrong note

The music industry is crying out loud against eu legislation for protecting intellectual property, complaining that it falls short of what is …

Sound knowledge

Science must for UK firms advertising green credentials

UK drug companies trying to subvert independent appraisal processes