A Tughlakian folly
Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable
Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable
Mired in misery, Chilika s fisherfolk continue to doggedly fight for their rights
Supreme Court stays government"s sham deal of promising land to tribals
Strong political pressure is being brought to bear on Maharashtra to agree that the height of the Narmada dam should be increased. The state had objected to the move because it had not completed the
Revised urea policy rekindles debate on just allocation of cleaner fuels
As approval for a crucial increase in the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam is awaited, there is concern about whether Maharashtra will complete the resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected people
Rights battle: There's hope in sight for manual scavengers. The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Union government as well as all the states and union territories in response to a petition
A petition filed by the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has prompted the Supreme Court to ask the Union government for an explanation. The discrepancy in the compensation amount due to the victims appears too huge to go unnoticed...
The Digvijay Singh government in Madhya Pradesh paid the price for ignoring the demands of those displaced by the Narmada Valley project. Now, under a BJP government will there be a change in the resettlement
• A rap album which deals with corruption has topped the music sharts in Sierra Leone, Africa. Is this an indication of how people feel about the subject? The album, Corruption, E do so
A banned female sterilisation method is in use in the rural areas of West Bengal, Karnataka, Punjab and Gujarat. So concludes a study conducted by researchers from Canada based McGill University. Its results, made public during a meet organised in New Del
The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector the Union ministry of environment and forests. It has moved more than 15 proposals before the standing committee of the National Wildlife Board to den
On the night of December 2, 1984, forty tons of deadly methyl isocyanate leaked out of a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killing thousands and injuring many more.
Twenty years ago around half a million people were exposed to toxic chemicals during a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. More than 7,000 people died within days. A further 15,000 died in the following years. Around 100,000 people are suffering chronic and debilitating illnesses for which treatment is largely ineffective.
On August 14, 2003, the Hon
SC frowns at fuel racket
Water rights being diluted in Sri Lanka?
Denmark's Supreme Court began deliberations on its biggest civil case to date on Monday, November 3, 2003. 187 Inuit families, thrown out of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds to make way
Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at its very first meeting in New Delhi on October 15. Baalu allegedly thrust upon the board a decision to drastical
A systematically careless government