COURT STRICTURE
The Madras High Court rapped the Tamil Nadu government for going out of its way in passing a government order (GO) awarding licences to "enterprising enterprises" for quarrying granites in Semangalam
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POISON ALGAE
A team of Californian scientists has synthesised a poison which contributes to the lethality of "red tides" -- the sudden population explosion of certain microscopic algae in coastal waters. This
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Sulabh scheme takes flak
A scheme initiated by Sulabh International, a voluntary organisation, to bring scavengers into the mainstream by encouraging well-placed residents of Delhi to adopt a scavenger family each, has
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What car is this anyway?
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke belching, spit and gum contraption a Maruta
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Exhausting the options
ENVIRONMENTAL problems, like other real-world concerns, never make for soft solutions. Even on the eve of its implementation, the laudable scheme whereby all new cars registered in Delhi, Bombay,
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The great and bloody organs bazaar
The recent regulatory organ transplant Act, supposed to be a fist in the kidneys of the huge illegal bodyparts trade, has turned out to be a glancing blow
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Good as gold
The Bhairu Lok Abhyaranya Dakav in Bhanwta, near Sariska, Rajasthan, is a sanctuary with a difference. It is a sanctuary declared, protected and managed by the people. "We call it the sonchidi, since
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Elephants pit
Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants
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A small matter of death
TWO things that can make humanity break out in a cold sweat: things too small to see and things too big to comprehend. In that sense, viruses are on the same footing as God: unseeable, capricious,
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A procession of voices
Our syllabi (for training forest officials) still have manuals written during the Raj S K Mukherjee Acting director, Wildlife Institute, Dehradun Why do you still train foresters in horseriding
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MEF stumped
State governments badger the MEF to implement its own proposal of industrial plantations in degraded forests
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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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Rights for the suddenly dispossessed
Hardly any proper law exists to protect the rights of the people against development related displacement
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Land for land
The declared rehabilitation goals never match the chicken feed that finally reaches the oustees
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People pay
Greenhorn conservatism in India has led to untold miseries for tribal people
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Shame...!
...cried the NGOs, oustees, social scientists and mass leaders in unison. Neither the secretive methods of the government nor the general policies laid down in the draft were acceptable to them.
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Reaching Out
NOBODY is aware of the number of disabled people living in the remote corners of Papua New Guinea. Polio, meningitis, tuberculosis and birth defects, particularly hearing impairment, are endemic. The
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Unity of opposites
This is a classic case of perverting dialectics: the coming together of class enemies in a smoking party. Leading cigarette manufacturers of the country are orchestrating a high profile public
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Kids of burden
Parents in the Paonta valley villages (Himachal Pradesh), are loaded with worries about the ways of their children, as parents anywhere are wont to do. The kids have apparently become willing
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Bitten by the ecology bug
Once again, Edward O Wilson's book has been nominated for the National Book Critic's Award in the US. Naturalist, his autobiography, is his 3rd nomination for the award. Wilson's youthful obsession