Chidambaram's success
Why should anyone, honest or dishonest, pay an iota of money as tax to such an incompetent political and bureaucratic system?
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One that will go
A US federal agency has ordered the demolition of a dam to protect regional ecology
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Go under
Or, follow coastal regulations
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Developing distress
The birth pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon
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Closed systems, open minds
The Centre for Science and Environment CSE has been doing research on health and environment in the public interest. But most government agencies, which are there to serve the people, not only refuse to share information but also create obstacl
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Protest damned
The first tremors of ego clashes have rattled the anti Tehri dam movement
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On borrowed time
The Hubble telescope is slowly wearing out and efforts to repair it are on, alongwith preparations for its replacement
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Cooking the goose...
Chidambaram has given a thrust to industrial development. But by failing to balance this development with environmental concerns, he has cooked the goose of millions
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Saviours turn killers
madhya Pradesh's (mp) government and its forest bureaucracy have found an innovative way of earning notoriety: destroy whatever tree cover exists in the biodiversity-rich state. Unable to mow down
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Foliage fever
Galvanising support for the unconditional withdrawal of the new Forest Bill, NGOs and a fifth column within the bureaucracy are harrowing the government
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The pitfalls of protection
To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions
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Autopsy of a betrayal
The Prime Minister has exposed his political immaturity on a matter as grave as the Sardar Sarovar Project and the bureaucracy has forced his feet into his mouth
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Green is a common word
The commons have gone green in some villages in the Tehri Garhwal district, with the people coming together to afforest an invaluable legacy
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The challenge of the balance
To start with, the environmental community should develop a shared green manifesto and jointly put it forward to the people as its own vision of green tinged prosperity and development
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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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The trouble with the Trapezmium
A public interest petition in the Supreme Court to shift industries from the Taj Trapezium, based on a report forwarded by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, opens up a Pandora"s box of objections to experts" ways of tackling the
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Just shifting the issue
As the authorities dither and bicker over how to combat pollution in the Capital, industrial units proliferate and entrench themselves virtually unchecked
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Tribals sow, MNCs reap
EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a
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The dam sham
Even as protests against the Bakun Dam Project grow more strident, the Malaysian government remains adamant on its decision to go ahead with it