Draft a Bill to protect Ganga, PMO tells environment ministry

Inter-ministerial committee to be set up for drafting legislation

News Briefs

Mahan at all costs

How government bent all rules to ensure Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal

IN COURT

News Briefs

Constructing A Dream

Consolidation against commoners

After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems

Ignorance makes a maneater

Get positive

Every problem has a solution

Anatomy of a poison

How, and where, does arsenic contaminate groundwater? The theories differ

Evil design

The extent of arsenic contamination now includes several states in India

In absolute denial

The government refuses to acknowledge that arsenic menace has a spread

Double trouble in Bundelkhand

In defence of ostrich farming

Promoting ostrich and emu farming in India's drought-prone districts could be a boon to farmers

Demand unsupplied

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’

Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel

Ami’s dirty picture

The river Ami in district Gorakhpur, once known for its water that tasted as sweet as mangoes is today a receptacle of filth, sewage and …

Jharkhand

Most politicians and activists see the Forest Conservation Act as a hurdle towards empowering the tribal population. They want the act amended