Learning Gandhi
IT MAY be unfashionable to say so these days, but Makarand Paranjape says it anyway: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was right. Realising perhaps that a straightforward discourse would make this a
IT MAY be unfashionable to say so these days, but Makarand Paranjape says it anyway: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was right. Realising perhaps that a straightforward discourse would make this a
EVEN without the dramatic discovery of spies at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) last fortnight, it could always be said that the most important scientific programmes run by the Union
HONEY BOARD Ministry of food and agriculture Krishi Bhawan New Delhi 110 001 UDYOG BHARTIA 33-E, Kamala Nagar New Delhi 110 007 National Horticulture Board Sector-14 Gurgaon 122
A bill, to be tabled in Parliament early next year, will promote energy conservation in the industrial sector
DECEMBER 3, 1994. The stage was set in Bhopal, again, for an army of people. Mediapeople. Activists. As for those who had rushed out of their homes 10 years ago to the day straight into the most
Fungal infections stalk the corridors hospitals in the Capital
THE world's health authorities and epidemiologists predict that India is heading pellmell for a major AIDS epidemic if preventive action is not taken urgently. But AIDS doesn't feature on the
Antioxidant -- a word once only used in the parlance of specialists -- has gained a certain notoriety in the lay press, and among the health-conscious US public. These are chemicals like vitamins A,
Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history"s deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. India needs the technical knowledge of the Western world. Union Carbide recently made available its vast scie
Indian scientists have found a chemical that cleans antique metallic objets d:rt without damaging the patina
Razia Sultana I ran away with my husband and 6 children on the night of the leak. But there was no escape from the toxic fumes. My husband was diagnosed stomach cancer and a heart condition. Till
The Goan government is visibly at the forefront in proclaiming a zealous adherence to the national Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) laws, mainly due to pressure from local greens. However, an interim
Dubious land sales that hold grave implications for fragile ecologies have set a dangerous precedence in the strategically sensitive Andamans and Nicobar Islands. What is more ominous is that the
A herbal health kit developed by the Tropical Botanical Gardens and Research Institute (TBGRI) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, might be introduced in the public health system if the kit, based on
The Union government plans to introduce a bill in the Parliament to institute a national drug authority which would monitor and control the manufacture and marketing of drugs in India. Although a
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh's instruction earlier this year to ban 'tiger-shows' at the Kanha and the Bandhavgarh national parks has been the source of considerable simmering dissent
The famed Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh could possibly suffer structural damage due to vibrations caused by aircraft movements in the vicinity. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
Maharashtra may be more vulnerable to earthquakes than had been suspected, a study being conducted by the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay indicates.
The West Bengal government is finding it extremely difficult to implement interim Supreme Court orders to relocate 122 chemical industries set up in Calcutta. The SC ruling had come earlier this year
NGOs will now be encouraged to invest in minor irrigation projects with the active participation of the beneficiaries, according to Pranab Mukherjee, deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission.