The nuclear liability bill needs a rethink

There is an urgent need for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the current liability regime besides a high-powered trans-disciplinary independent experts committee to study the issue, says......

Five things the environment minister must do

Our new Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has a reputation for sensitivity towards ecology carved through his exemplary speech in the Rajya Sabha wherein he had eloquently denounced the world's......

'We are likely to see growing water scarcity'

How will climate change transform India? What should Indians do in our everyday lives to lessen the impact of global warming? Rediff.com's Nikhil Lakshman asked Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman,......

'America cannot live in isolation'

How did 9/11 change the India-US equation? Are the two nations now really on the way to become strategic partners? Do they really see eye-to-eye on the war on terror? As the world marks five years......