Unconventional approach to AIDS control

Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue-collar workers and …

How many trees for a political tamasha?

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram's self-boosting extravaganza in Madurai has cost the nation an estimated 40,000 litres of precious …

Cauvery: manage demand, not supply

Nuclear day-dreaming

A cloud o criticism forms over the proposal to set up a high-power nuclear plant at Kudangulam in Tamil Nadu

Experts favour hiking charges to halt irrigation water waste

Disciplined use of irrigation water can be encouraged by efficient supply at higher rates.

Waterfront Cauvery

Findings of a panel report on crop conditions in the Cauvery river basin and the delta may suggest water pricing as one of the remedial …

Moneymakers

IN FAVOUR OF QUACKS

Tamil catamarans go plastic

A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast

Wealth in waste