No childs play
The Toxics Link study found high concentrations of lead in all samples of soft toys containing PVC. Even trace amounts of lead are dangerous to children.
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Hungry and dying
Hunger is unpalatable. For a government that wishes to assert that it is not callous, it is particularly so. But hunger, with a capital H, is a pill that millions of people in Madhya Pradesh continue to swallow.
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Political project
Until the second week of September, when both the ruling Congress and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suddenly discovered that the affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the Supreme Court on the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project was controversial and hurt religious sentiments, the biggest political ripples created by
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Myth vs Science
Science and rationality have taken a beating in the unfolding of the recent events surrounding the controversial mega marine project called the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) of the Government of India.
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Theres no Guarantee
RAMPAL Singh Yadav, 25, moves with an air of purpose on his crutches, supervising the stone-crushing work by a nearly 80-strong
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The study of nitrate concentration in drinking water in Alwar city (Rajasthan)
In the present study drinking water samples of different ground water sources had been analyzed for the estimation of a problematic chemical parameter nitrate. Analysis of drinking water samples of different sources in different zones in Alwar revealed that the concentration of nitrate had been recorded highest in drinking water samples of North-West Zone.
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Making resettlement work: The case of Indias Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary
The relocation and resettlement of people from nature reserves is a controversial issue in the conservation community. The perceived poor success rate of resettlement efforts, combined with availability of few well-documented studies, warrants a detailed examination of this issue. The authors has analyzed a relocation and resettlement project in India
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Best practice Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) policy
People living in regional cities and towns around the world expect governments to deliver reasonable levels of public transport services in their local area. They understand that a small population base can limit the frequency and span of public transport, but want and deserve an acceptable minimum level of service that offers travel choices. (Oct-Dec 2007)
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Cool, Clear Water
The people of Qara had written off their town's buried assets. More than 1,500 years earlier, residents had dug stonelined aqueducts
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Watershed management: Lessons from Common Property Theory
Watershed development is an important component of rural development and natural resource management strategies in many countries. A watershed is a special kind of common pool resource: an area defined by hydrological linkages where optimal management requires coordinated use of natural resources by all users. Management is difficult because watershed systems have multiple, conflicting uses, so any given approach will spread benefits and costs unevenly among users. Theories
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Organizational turnaround in KSRTC - As a case of public passenger transport system
In this paper is discussed the turnaround performance of KSRTC, which provides pointers towards rejuvenating state run transport corporations. The Policy Environment and Internal Operational Environment of State Transport Undertakings are discussed first to highlight the impact they make on the performance of these corporations. (Oct-Dec 2007)
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Human development report 2007/2008: fighting climate change - human solidarity in a divided world
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem.
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Making progress within and beyond borders
Today's challenges provide the chance to develop global mechanisms for sustainable development. They can act as springboards towards higher resource productivity and efficiency, environmentally friendly technologies, and sustainable habits and lifestyles. The above discussion brings up a number of issues that require thorough considerations. However, these are still on the nature of individual components of the policy framework, not on the framework itself. It may be useful to provide a brief reflection on the strategic vision that can hold these diverse thoughts together.
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Robust options for decarbonisation
The purpose of this background paper prepared for the symposium on "Global Sustainability: a Nobel Cause' is to summarize and recall the main findings of the Fourth Assessment Report and to visualize the key messages by new results recently obtained with an innovative integrated assessment model at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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The expert committee on road map for coal sector reforms (Part-II)
In this report the committee has examined the medium and the long term (up to 2031-32) demand
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Value added analysis for performance evaluation of TNSTC
Financial viability is perhaps the central theme of any business proposition. The terms financial management may be applied to any kind of undertaking or organization regardless of its aims or constitution. Therefore, proper financial management in Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporations (TNSTC) will help not only to provide greater return on investment but also to provide better services at reasonable prices to the society, to pay higher wages and salaries to their employees and to operate business efficiently. (Oct-Dec 2007)
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Marketing public transport
Public transport is today facing a highly competitive market and qualitative excellence of the service provided is the only way to improve the market share and sustain competition. A constant feed back on customer requirements and perception is obtained regularly through Market surveys. (Oct-Dec 2007)
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Growth and CO2 emissions: how do different countries fare?
This report provides comparative data on a number of measures of emissions for a wide range of countries, allowing comparisons to be made among the different measures. It provides a decomposition of the change in fossil fuel CO2 emissions between 1994 and 2004 into changes in five factors: the average emission per unit of fossil fuel consumed; the share of fossil fuel consumption in total energy consumption; total energy consumption per unit of GDP; GDP per capita; and population. It carries out this decomposition for the top 70 countries in terms of 2004 emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels.
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Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic crops as a means of diversification of agriculture in Uttaranchal
Most of the medicinal plants grow wild and are collected from forests. Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of plant species are being harvested by millions of poor rural population and used by millions around the world for treating a variety of illnesses. The present study is based mainly on primary data collected from the farmers of Uttaranchal who have been cultivating some of the medicinal and aromatic crops.
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Effect of modern inputs on foodgrain productivity: A macro analysis in West Bengal
The present study aimed to get an idea of the effect of fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation and HYV area and their role in increasing the foodgrain productivity in West Bengal. In this study various models are used to identify the relationship between yield and each modern input.