Earthquake in Indonesia triggers tsunami fear in India

Centre for ocean information services later withdraws tsunami warning for Andaman and Nicobar islands

Poor little rich states

Rich in natural resources but extremely poor, the three new states are in need of a new strategy for development. But no blueprints have been …

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

Obama takes first dip

The US becomes the first to join a global patents pool to make AIDS drugs cheaper but health workers are sceptical of the initiative

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Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers

How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

Shale gas: hype and reality

As the world rushes for the gas, scientists gather evidence of its environmental risks

Bill shows the way

Stringent laws in India can control unethical practices

Connected events and difficult future

She walks in oblivion

Society itself doesn't care to know about headloading

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Deal won, stakes lost

Cancun deal shifts burden on developing countries not developed

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ABCDE of Obama’s sales pitch

Filthy India? Have you looked at your own country, President Trump

India’s historical emissions have been far lower and the gap between India and the US widens by a large factor when considering per capita …

‘Repressive governments use financial crises, global pandemics to change societal norms’

Sam Szoke-Burke, senior legal researcher, Columbia University, talks to DTE amid reports of governments trying to take control of land in name of …

Unprepared for Ebola

The rapid spread of Ebola to three continents shows that the world needs effective surveillance and response system to check infectious diseases

US plays dirty on tar sands

The EU appears to have backed off on important climate change policy because of pressure from US-backed Big Oil

US policy shift to hit dam funding

Shift in focus from hydropower to new renewables may impact World Bank funds for big dams

G8 and tragedy of Africa

Rich nations are forcing African states to change laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture in a replay of colonial adventurism

Whose budget is it, Mr Jaitley?

Being the first full year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government, there was expectation that the finance minister's announcements …

Happy feet

Residents of pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods keep fit