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The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised introspection and self-repair

ALEX C TOOHEY, a chemical engineer, is the chief executive of the World Coal Institute WCI , London. The WCI is a non profit, non governmental association of coal producing enterprises, with memberships from all the 6 continents. The WCI's mission is t

Writer Gerald Malcom Durrell's death leaves a void in both the animal and the human world

A Myanmarese shifting cultivation technique, once perverted by British colonisers to maximise teak exploitation, is still valued for its benefits

An Indian scientists has challenged the estimates of methane a greenhouse gas produced from paddy fields

American industry tries to power its way into the Indian renewable energy market

THE Indian fertility graph mirrors the falling rate. Urban women who have 1 child less, on an average, are spearheading the fertility downslide. Women in their 40s have an average 5 children each,

THE Review Committee on the Sardar Sarovar Project, instead of taking a principled stand and rejecting the extremely limited frame of reference set by the government, produced a report that was

A COMPREHENSIVE database on legumes, the first of its kind in South Asia is being set up by Sudershan Kumar, a researcher at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The bean family,

BECKY Sidebottom, a Yorkshire woman with "immortal longings" goes to a fantasy country, Lapalistan, where she encounters Desi Khunbarrah, the most sexually magnetic man she has ever met. Rana's

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