Joe Bast and his libertarian think tank are a major force among climate sceptics — but they just can't win the battle over science.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/full/475440a.html

A demagogue is able to make New Delhi panic and shoot itself in the foot. (Editorial)

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh isn't bothered how industry looks at him. He's here to enforce green laws.

Human rights activist Binayak Sen spent two years in jail before being granted bail. Charged with sedition, waging war against the Indian state, as well as being a Maoist supporter, both under normal laws and under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and the Unlawful Activities Act, the evidence has been full of discrepancies and contradictions on material points.

To change this 'demoncracy' to a democracy, we must all join hands and demand for a judiciary that is not rotting and rusting!

Bal Krishan Keayla, a key figure in the National Working Group on Patent Law and an indefatigable campaigner for two decades against the GATT/WTO agreement on intellectual property, died on 27 November. A colleague in the working group reminisces.

Ruhi Kandhari travels to a cold desert in Himachal Pradesh to see how a former bureaucrat is greening it.

How one man's vision transformed Kuthambakkam village near Chennai into a model of self-governance.

R Chandrasekhar, IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is credited with establishing India's first department of information technology (DIT) in his home state. The architect of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), he is also regarded as the father of e-governance in India and has won the prime minister's award for public services. Edited excerpts from an interview with him.

Dr Alok Shukla is among those civil servants who received awards for excellence in public administration from the prime minister on April 21. As secretary, food and civil supplies department, Chhattisgarh, he, along with two of his colleagues, has been credited with turning the much-maligned PDS into a success story.