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Delhi ridge: a lifeline in danger

Encroachments by the poor and the rich alike are proving to be the ridge's bane. The malady is monumental, and the court's healing touch has provided incomplete relief at best
- 14/05/1997
A tinge of green

Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
- 14/12/1993
- - Environment
  - Forests
  - Mining
  - Betwa
  - Bhopal Gas Disaster
  - Political Parties
  - India
  - Delhi
  - Rajasthan
  - River Pollution
Indias Green India Mission extending bureaucratic control in the name of decentralization?

One of the eight Missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, the <a href="http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/GIM-Report-PMCCC.pdf">revised National Mission for a Green India (GIM for short)</a> professes responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help:
- 27/11/2010
Wielding the green whip

Mexico can't sell its "dolphin unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle shell. Malaysia is penalised for exporting rainforest wood. All over the world, green trade wars are raging. But trade ban
- 14/08/1992
The spirit of the sanctuary

FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.
- 30/01/1994
Dang and blast

The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the letter by underdeveloped Indian administrators in the Dangs, Gujarat"s boondocks tribal belt
- 14/06/1995
A world of double standards

VIRTUALLY routed in the 1984 parliamentarry electionsthe BharatiyaJanata Party (Bip) made a remarkable comeback in the 1989 and1991polls. The party also came topower in four states in the
- 14/05/1996
The paradox of nature and balanced accounts

Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for planners to promote sustainable development. Experience in the Philippines has shown that only an elaborate c
- 14/03/1995
Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri
- 14/11/1992
- - Rural Habitat
  - Women
  - Children
  - Education
  - CSE