FIGHTING FORGERY

Chink in the armour

Pact on damages

Rare find

Shot in cold blood

Nepal exodus

Cops most corrupt

Bloody charges

Fresh charges levelled against some French scientists and politicians for allowing untreated blood transfusion have taken the country by storm

Embryo research gets a new lease of life

The US government is spurring on embryo research that might provide crucial treatment clues to ailments still evading cures

Cellular phones and shanties

Post-communist Siberia has hardly any paved streets, but is brimming with cellular phones and $40,000 jeeps

Heated fracas over forest fires

The conflicting views of environmentalists, foresters and local citizens are hindering the formulation of a coherent forest policy in the US

Dead silence on AIDS

The recently-concluded AIDS conference did not hold out even the slightest hope for those afflicted with the disease

Fuel fracas

An US Environment Protection Agency decision has added fuel to the fire in the row between the American oil industry and ethanol producers

Technological juggernaut loses speed

Endless red tape and public hostility to technology have raised fears about the future of Germany's technological sector

Sand-bagged over cash

The international convention on desertification is plagued by differences of opinion on financial resources and funding mechanisms

NGOs play crucial role

The involvement of non-governmental organisations is essential for achieving sustainable development objectives

Bidding low for first-ever US emissions auction

Most of the permits to pollute set up for auction by the US Environmental Protection Agency could not be sold, as the bidding failed to reach the …

Divorcing charity from voluntary work

A British government report recommends stripping voluntary organisations of their charitable status.

A few rotten NGOs

...have create enough of a stink to taint the rest of the much-vaunted 'Third Sector', says a government-funded body

Problems with bio-safety

Concerns about the world's indigenous peoples were conveniently sidelined as bio-safety centrestage at the recent biodiversity meeting in Nassau

Mite but mighty!

The key to unravelling the mysteries of the earth could actually lie in the functioning of organisms so small that a million of them could be …

Now, it is Jupiter's turn

Yet another discovery in a series of unfolding spatial dramas propels Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, into spotlight

For a better tomorrow

Unlike the first United Nations conference on climate change, the recently concluded second meet was marked by a desire to give the planet a …

Attaining autonomy

Tribals in India have finally succeeded in achieving their long cherished ambition of self rule

Celestial guest

Hale-Bopp, the brightest comet of this century, promises to shed new light on the birth of the universe