Tusker travails
Last year, when a herd of elephants from the Purulia forests of Bihar made its annual trek to greener areas in the Bankura and Medinipur districts of West Bengal, it strayed close to Calcutta,
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Nomadic voters
Chief Election Commissioner T N Seshan has sent a missive to district administrations instructing them to register various communities which hitherto had been left out of electoral and census lists
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Environment in Uttarakhand
Veteran environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhat is the latest among the prominent figures to criticise the "unwarranted" action against the Uttarakhand agitation by the Uttar Pradesh police. The Chipko
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Patent link
An online networking facility introduced on November 19 by the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) will enable Indian manufacturers to keep track of international patents and the latest
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RAW deal
Two months ago, customs and wildlife authorities had announced one of the largest hauls of poached tiger bones -- 162 kg -- in India when they arrested Pema Thinley in Delhi. Recent information
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Stretch the small horizon
A recent survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industries has proposed sweeping policy changes in the smallscale sector to enhance its viability in the export market
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Mucking around the Taj
Is there any point in keeping an architectural beauty radiant while the rest of the city goes to pot?
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The roots of prosperity
The woods march back to barren forest department land as villagers in Gujarat's Panchmahals district grab the spade
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'In genetics, the ethical choice lies with the people'
A professor of molecular biology and virology at the Salk Institute at La Jolla, USA, Dr Inder M Verma is also the chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee Overseas , Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. At the 16th International Con
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The states see red
TILL the other day, the Rajasthan chief minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, seemed to spend much of his time frozen on an anti-environmentalist platform, ranting against the Union ministry of
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Doubts cloud desertification convention
Developing nations fear that the lack of a proper financial mechanism may hinder the world in its battle against desertiflcation
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Pesticides of death
SINCE Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , written in 1962, tried to wake the world to the damage pesticides can do both to human health and the environment, the limitations of chemical pesticides have
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Digging its own grave
Despite its glorious past, the future of the Archaeological Survey of India is jeopardised because of internal wrangling and a lack of a concrete philosophy of exploration
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Fissile filch
The recent recovery of stolen uranium points to the need for better security arrangements at nuclear installations
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Bloodsucking developments
The spread of malaria is usually a result of human activity
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When the hills turn blue...
... it is the elusive kurinji flowering in the Western Ghats, blossoming faithfully every 12 years
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Pumping in diseases
THE recent outbreak of falciparum malaria in non-endemic areas in Rajasthan has underscored the link between development projects and the damage they cause to the human environment. Public health
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Monumental task
For the ASI archaeologists, the philosophy of conservation is still bound between the covers of John Marshall's handbook on the conservation of historical monuments, written in 1903. Marshall
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Booked for arms
UNDP's Human Development Report has become a bone of contention for 2 Indian ministries
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Riding the wind
Wind energy promises a refreshing breather, providing a low cost and ecofriendly alternative