Leo Saldanha and Subramanya Sastry
on the threats to the Kali River from pollution and sand mining and more recently a proposal to build the seventh dam across the river's last stretch.
One hundred and seventy years after his passing, the
life of Raja Ram Mohan Roy has much to
offer a world full of religious conflict.
Melanie P Kumar
looks back.
The India Committee of the Netherlands
reports on agri-business corporations' wage and labour
practices in India, and calls on the EU to improve its
standards and monitoring.
Interact:
Are Indians more to blame than MNCs? October 2003 update:
MNCs agree to end child labour
The same combination of corporate interest and
agricultural science that led to mindless use of
pesticide is now turning to genetic engineerng, says
Devinder Sharma.
The European Patent Office at Munich recently ran into opposition to a broad spectrum patent
granted on all GM soyabean varieties to a Monsanto owned company.
This May 1, taking a resolute stand, the Supreme Court directed the Union and state governments to take specific measures to address the desperate crisis of food for drought-affected communities.
A recent report published by Toxics Link reviews the waste management situation that India has to deal with on the fast-widening information-technology highway.
Videh Upadhyay
argues that adivasis will benefit greatly if the Provision of Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) is implemented on the ground by the state governments.
