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The poverty of policy

It is often said that the next war in the world will be fought over water. I do not know if this prophecy will come true. But I do know that skirmishes and even full fledged battles over water are
- 29/11/2004
Shut up

Else, you ll get a legal notice
- 14/11/2004
- - Media
  - Legislation
Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?
- 14/11/2004
Re-energise yourself

This month, even as the Russian cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol and sent it on to parliament for ratification, the price of oil crossed US $50 per barrel a 60 per cent increase in the price of
- 14/11/2004
- - Climate Change
  - Kyoto Protocol
  - Energy
  - Fossil Fuels
  - Oil
  - China
  - India
  - Developing Countries
4th major oil shock in 30 years

No let up in fossil fuel consumption. Why?
- 30/10/2004
The waste of nations

There is a seamier aspect to the outsourcing boom: waste
- 30/10/2004
- - Animal Dung
  - Waste Recycling
Free electricity spurs water wastage

HAZI SAHEB KHAN from Ghagas village in Haryana s Gurgaon district speaks with remarkable clarity on complex issues related to water. Just back from a visit to Gujarat, this 58 year old farmer is visibly impressed with the irrigation system he saw there. V
- 30/10/2004
Edusat will educate

But how?
- 14/10/2004
The nectar poison we drink

When Neena Khanna from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences called to tell us that her patient who lives in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh had high levels of arsenic in his blood, hair and
- 14/10/2004
A matter of perception

The nature of the World Bank interest in air pollution in India
- 14/10/2004
There are ample facts to support biotechnology

CLIVE JAMES, chairperson, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri biotech Applications gives T V JAYAN and CLIFFORD POLYCARP his prescription for feeding the hungry world
- 14/10/2004
'Donors give less money for neglected diseases'

DAVID H MOLYNEUX, of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, tells VIBHA VARSHNEY that public health policy should focus on neglected diseases, for they are easy to control:
- 29/09/2004
Terms of un endearment

What should be the new terms of engagement?
Pollution killed the radio star

Signs of climate change can also come through mute radios
- 29/09/2004
The battle of the Indian bulge - II

I never thought I would write in defence of the Indian state. But I am. The de construction of the notion of public space and the practice of public service is evident and will cripple us enormously.
- 29/09/2004
The Rs 500 crore forecasting machine

But where s the imagination? And the data?
- 14/09/2004
- - Monsoons
  - India
The battle of the Indian bulge - I

In Nagpur city, women gather outside a court. In broad daylight they lynch a local serial rapist. When four women are arrested, few hundred women own up to the crime. They say they killed Akku Yadav
- 14/09/2004
- - River Pollution
  - Women
  - Legislation
  - Governance
  - Politics
  - India
  - Delhi
The lie of the land

A deluge of stories on water
- 14/09/2004
We have to create a culture of energy efficiency

VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR, minister of state independent charge for non conventional energy sources, tells KUSHAL P S YADAV
- 30/08/2004
Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?
- 30/08/2004
- - Dams
  - Tehri
  - Dam Safety
  - Earthquakes
  - Displacement
  - Rehabilitation