Beyond backwardness
Villagers in Bidar have taken up the cudgels against industrialists and lax state officials responsible for turning this backward district into a dumping ground for toxic waste
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Digging their own grave
Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis despit its environmental costs is such a flourishing economic activity that political parties are vying with each other to protect it. Because most mine workers have no other livelihood, they r
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All gold and hellish litter
Beyond all that glittering in the congested streets of Calcutta's sex districts, is defiled environment and morbid health conditions
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Sanctuary in peril
Maharashtra villagers and environmentalists see red as the Radhanagri Sanctuary becomes yet another victim of industrial onslaught
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Branches into batons
The Forest Bill can be used to preserve our verdant national wealth
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'I will not say Delhi is an environmental disaster'
Delhi is bursting at the seams from the pressures of rampant urbanisation. Everything that can possibly go wrong in this metro of 10 million people seems to have already gone wrong. The water, land and air everything seems to have been fouled up, the re
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What s up, IGAU
Why transfer rice germplasm to Syngenta?
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Standing their own
The Sindh Wildlife Department is opposing oil exploration in a national park in Pakistan
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Himachal denotifies sanctuaries for hydel projects
in march 2006, Himachal Pradesh gave the go-ahead to proposals denotifying four sanctuaries and redrawing boundaries of 15 areas, including protected areas. Not surprisingly, the areas are required
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SEZ, how special?
Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has gone into overdrive to push its new policy on special economic zones. The difference, this time around, is th
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High court grants round one to railways
A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project
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Linking up to stay afloat
People affected by an irrigation project in Rajasthan are not only speaking out collectively against the insensitivity, they are teaming up with others in same soup
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Best kept sacred
Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to save nature in its pristine form.
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Protests against methane mining in Chhattisgarh
Residents of around 25 villages recently stopped the public hearing for a proposed methane extraction project. The 500-odd people from Gharghonda tehsil in Raigarh, armed with the Centre for
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Shifting pains
Karnataka gets jitters as Goa clamps down
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India
• The need to check poaching of migratory birds at the Pong sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh has recently been stressed upon by a forest officer who has conducted a six-year-long study in the area.
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Meghalaya limestone quarries closed
French multinational Lafarge's limestone quarries in Meghalaya, which supply raw material to its cement plant across the border in Bangladesh have been shut down by the government. This comes
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CO 2 vanishing
Forests of Europe soak up as much as 280 million tonnes of carbon on annually
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Case dismissed
In its judgement on a writ petition challenging the Konkan Railway Project, the Panaji High Court ruled that the railways did not need to get an environmental clearance for the project.
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US scientist uses herpes virus to fight brain tumours in rats
SURGEONS may soon be able to call upon living micro-organisms to fight tumours that cannot be reached by the surgeon's scalpel. US scientists are proposing a new form of "molecular surgery" involving