Performance pays
The poor of India know it when a political leader is earnest about their uplift. Exit polls do not
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The utopian trap
ROY, Tisdell and Sen"s book on economic development and the environment is certainly timely, having come out only months before the June UNCED summit at Rio. Interest in the subject is therefore at
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Flawed conservation policies lead to decline in gharial population
In the well-known Panchatantra story, a monkey wanting to cross the mighty Ganga befriends a crocodile. But a while into their friendship, the reptile’s intentions turn sinisterĂ€
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Single point fuel injection
Chhattisgarh is a lesson in biodiesel realities
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THE MONEY MAKERS
• US computer software companies are in a state of shock over an announcement by Compton's New Media, a small US company, that it has been granted a patent on computer systems that retrieve
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Out of place
Hydel project bang next to Kerala s evergreen forest
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Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
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Hindustan motors
Can India ever have car free centres?
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A common problem
rangelands are those areas which for reasons of physical limitations like low and erratic precipitation, rough topography, poor drainage and cold temperatures are unsuitable for cultivation.
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Burdensome load
Laid off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal
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Andaman and Nicobar: Beyond India's landmass
Excerpts from <i>Troubled Islands!</i> by Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Human nature
THE Resource Art exhibition at New Delhi's Max Mueller Bhavan took a lateral -- often oblique -- view of the interaction between people and nature. Based on a show of contemporary Installation Art in
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Villagers veto sale of grazing land to Mundra SEZ
Until a month ago the Adani Group, the proponent of Mundra sez in Kutch district of Gujarat, had been on a roll, buying land at dirt-cheap rates, though some in the political circle and real-estate
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When the land shouts
Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park
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Moneymakers
REJUVENATING RUBBER: India will soon have access to a new technology which can provide some answers to the environmental problems posed by stockpiles of used rubber tyres. The Bombay-based REPL
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A fighting chance
One man s dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village
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Have we forgotten Rio already?
India has failed in the basic work that it needed to do even before going to Rio -- define the pathway of sustainable development for itself
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Weapons of the weak
In the current election, campaign, mainstream parties were once again caught napping on their environmental commitments, spurring a novel people's protest
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Pound foolish
The Aral Sea crisis exemplifies " creeping environmental problems", and unless India's environment ministers devote more time to natural resource management, we will multiply tragedies like Kalahandi and Palamau
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Caught in the crossfire in Nepal
The Bankariyas, a forest dweller community of central Nepal, have been uprooted from their traditional habitat and are living like refugees in their own country. Several other indigenous groups have suffered the same fate. The eight year old war between t