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Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

Clouds over solar

Wooing the judges, openly

There is conflict of interest as US patent owners schedule meetings with Indian judiciary and patent regulators

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

When business rules our kitchens

A modern Mary Shelley

New-look farming fumbles to an erratic start

The Planning Commission is embarking on a new approach to agriculture planning. But state governments and the finance ministry are reluctant to …

Fiscal fitness

While commercial vehicle operators appeal to the Supreme Court to review its order on the phase-out of 15-year old vehicles, the Delhi government …

We create jobs-for the US

Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India

The root cause

50 years of dropping catches

The boat people

Thousands of people in Bihar are trapped between the Kosi and its embankments. They have been suffering for decades. But the state government is …

New Nepal

The country struggles with ways to use its diverse ecology in finalising new states

For the record

The wisdom of the unlettered

Locating the State

In September 2004, Down To Earth carried a two-part editorial on the failure of the State to deliver basic services. In the September 15, 2004 …

Bicycles pave the way

Automobiles were not the harbingers of good roads—at least not in USA

Neemi's water conference

Jal biradari launches movement to drought-proof villages

The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

Caspian tigers may not be extinct