Barrage project in dire straits
The high cost of government-imposed environmental safeguards for the Subarnarekha barrage project in West Bengal's Midnapore district threatens to make the project "unviable". The conditions,
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Bitterness over diet colas
The competition between international cola giants in India may well lead to the introduction of diet colas that contain sweeteners banned by the Union health ministry under the Prevention of Food
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No elections, no funds
The Union rural development ministry has stopped release of further funds to 8 states that have failed to hold elections to the panchayat raj institutions as required under the Panchayat Raj Act,
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Underwater threat
The discovery of a dormant volcano in an undersea ridge flanking the Barren Islands in the Andamans has galvanised the forest and wildlife officials into preparing plans to study the impact on the
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Ridge riddle
The Delhi government is in a quandary about declaring the Delhi Ridge a reserved forest. Claims to the area must be settled by the forest settlement officer before the government can issue a final
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Conditional surrender
Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan's charter of 10 demands to the Tamil Nadu government as the precondition for releasing 3 hostages may provoke the final offensive against him by authorities. In a
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Axing the eucalyptus
Rajasthan villagers have taken to uprooting the eucalyptus trees, popularly known as safeda, which they had welcomed a decade ago as harbinger of greenery in the desert state. Residents of Samredpur
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Abolishing child labour
The centre proposes to set up a national child labour elimination authority to implement schemes to abolish child labour in hazardous industries by AD 2000. Over the next 6 years, Rs 850 crore scheme
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A luxury no more
In a bid to woo the big industry, the West Bengal government will withdraw the 10 per cent luxury tax on cigarettes before the next budget. Keen to give a push to industrialisation, the state
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The microbes strike back
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
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Money for the poor energises the rich
THE ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is giving the rich city dweller in the country an optional source of electricity: rooftop photovoltaic cell units which convert sun rays into
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The development of international principles and practices of wildlife research and managment: Asian and American approaches
This comprehensive manual presents a package of proven field techniques in wildlife management and research.
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The power of the zephyr
The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity.
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The new utilitarians...
...of the North revel in pushing the South to the road to environmental rack and ruin
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Stuffed to death
How excess nutrients can kill a lake
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The power of the zephyr
The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity
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Male underdevelopment
FOR both the poor and the rich, life is full of choices; but whereas for the rich, choosing is mostly synonymous with freedom and happy expectancy, the poor must always choose between one kind of
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Brain drain backs up
India finally tries to give real incentives to stop indigenous intelligence from migrating abroad
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The big splurge
Legal gains on compensation were squandered in the 3rd and final judgement on Bhopal
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Eugenics in black and white
People with fascism in their genes insist again that high intelligence is a White racial trait