Industry

 Black liquor

Agro based pulp and paper: technological inability?

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14/06/2003
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Industry

 Flaying the environment

Tanneries: ill managed, technologically challenged

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14/06/2003
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Industry

 Stranglehold

Pesticides: what"s the way out?

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14/06/2003
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Industry

 A non priority?

Environment managers do not count

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14/06/2003
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India

  UP is core area

The upsurge in the incidence of polio in Uttar Pradesh (up) is threatening to derail the World Health Organisation's (who) goal of eradicating the disease from the planet by 2005, asserts who

Publication Date: 
14/05/2003
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Immunisation, India, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
India

 A tale of two diseases

India is the shining star in the global battle to eradicate smallpox. It is also a branded villain as far as polio is concerned. How is it that we managed so well against a disease more virulent than polio? Why does Uttar Pradesh today contribute to about

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14/04/2003
Pranay Lal
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Vaccination, Polio, India, Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Diseases
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 Ship breaking set to get a fillip despite blaze in Gujarat yard

six people died recently in a fire at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat. The issue of workers' safety and the environmental implications of this highly polluting activity have come to the fore

Publication Date: 
30/03/2003
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Shipping, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, Legislation, India, Gujarat, Waste Recycling
India

 What's cooking in India's largest biogas plant

Methan village in Sidhpur tehsil, Patan district of Gujarat saves 500 metric tonnes of fuelwood annually. They ve been doing it for the last 15 years. This village is home to India s largest biogas plant, run by Silver Jubilee Biogas Producers and Distrib

Publication Date: 
14/03/2003
Nidhi Jamwal
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Pollution Control, Renewable Energy, Waste Incineration, Biogas, Technology, India, Gujarat
Mining

 Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh district, Gujarat. From December 23 to 26, 2002, thousands of villagers from villages in Keshod, Maliya, Memd

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Suresh Babu S V
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Rivers, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Public Participation, NGO, Gujarat, Bhavnagar (D), Junagadh (D), Rajkot, Rainfall
India

 Tough trial

Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?

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30/01/2003
Albert Chominot
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Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Health Policy, Medical Systems, Ayurveda, India, Gujarat, European Union (EU)

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