Butterfly wings to the aid of glaucoma patients
INSPIRED by tiny structures on transparent butterfly wings, scientists have developed a light-manipulating surface for more effective and longer-lasting eye implants for glaucoma patients. Researchers
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Battle of Bastar
Chhattisgarh: The Centre approves the diversion of forest land for the Tatas' proposed steel plant in Bastar. India's hinterland, densely forested and mineral-rich but inhabited by extremely poor and
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Young & vulnerable
The latest UNICEF report presents a hard-hitting view of the condition of poor children in urban areas. COMPARISONS between and studies of living conditions in rural and urban India are aplenty, though
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Penance for Ganga
An environmental scientist continues his relentless battle to save the Ganga, this time by starting a fast unto death. THE campaign to save the Ganga has cost one life in the hill State of Uttarakhand.
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The price of reform
India's return to the phase of higher indirect tax revenues will impose disproportionately larger burdens on the poorer sections. In a Budget speech that was tiresome to the point of being boring and sought
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Losing direction
The Budget provides proof of the United Progressive Alliance government having forgotten the importance of its own “flagship schemes”. BUDGET 2012-13 provides conclusive proof that the United Progressive
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Renewables option
Instead of imposing nuclear power upon unwilling people, India should join the renewables revolution for handsome gains. PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has stooped low by alleging that the large-scale
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‘We sell power, not lignite'
Interview with A.R. Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation. IN the context of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation's (NLC) plans to diversify from lignite-based electricity
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Halting the pink tide
The Sewri mudflats in Mumbai, home to a rich biodiversity, including flamingoes, is under threat from a development project. IT is low tide and the mess of humanity is on full display on the mudflats
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Tenuous lives
Conservation measures have taken away the traditional livelihoods of nomadic tribes in Karnataka. AT a short distance from the world famous monuments at Hampi is the village of Hulihaidar in the fertile
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Any dam has a life'
Interview with Ramaswamy R. Iyer, former Secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources. THE controversy over the Mullaperiyar dam has acquired emotional overtones, with both Kerala and Tamil Nadu adopting