The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter colony would become a thriving section of the city in a few years.
Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
<div id="__ss_1849827">At a recent Interdisciplinary Group Meeting in UTTIPEC (<a href="http://uttipec.nic.in/">http://uttipec.nic.in/</a>), I gave a presentation on the path that planners, engineers and designers in the government should/ could take to achieve the World Class City goals of Delhi.
Buses in the northern and western parts of the country may soon run on a mixture of diesel and natural gas
The next time you see a spoilt brat, do not blame his parents. It could be just because of some extra lead in his bones
Ana M Soto, professor at the Tufts Medical School at Massachusetts in the us, made an important discovery while working with breast cancer cells in 1989. She found that some of the tissues were
India dithers on cleaner coal technologies. But it has the technology to help the thermal power sector clean up its act
WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save
Bihar wetlands may be the only place in the world where makhana is grown on a commercial basis
The oil pipeline burst at Bombay High exposes maintenance lapses and highlights the urgent need for environment management plans to tackle such mishaps.
Lack of ecological concerns among today's professionals have led to a dichotomy between development and the environment.
It is time to question whether the new green urgency of big business is a genuine change of heart
Polluters of the environment are now increasingly being regarded as criminals. In New Jersey, there's a new breed of police personnel who are authorised to book them
THE BRANDT Commission in 1980 had called for a world "based less on power and status, more on justice and contract; less discretionary, more governed by fair and open rules". Shridath
France has 58 million people living in 22 regions, 96 departments (counties) and 36,000 municipalities, varying in population size from 100 to 2 million. Two-thirds of the municipalities have less
Has the Som distillery really restricted its operations as per government orders? Apparently not, as a <i>DTE </i> team finds out
The finance minister's money bag may emerge as the commoner's bete noir
AN Indian environmentalist recently offered me a five-word analysis of pollution in the Netherlands, which made up in crispness what it lacked in elegance. "Holland," he said, "is drowning in
With a few exceptions, video newsmagazines have shown little interest in covering science and environment.
The Care for the Environment Contest, which was held in New Delhi to mark World Environment Day, met with a response that far surpassed the expectations of its organisers.
