Preserve trees at old GMC complex, government urged
The People's Movement for Civic Action has urged the Goa State government to preserve the tree cover at the old GMC complex so as to add more value to the precinct and to make the proposed project
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More boys born in South in 2003
South Goa had more bonny boys born than girls in 2003. Of the births registered in this district from January to October 2003, the male-female ratio stood at 1.09. The ration in favour of males was
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MMC seeks public help to make Vasco garbage free
The Chief Officer of Mormugao Municipal Corporation (MMC), Goa, has sought the co-operation of residents from Vasco, as part of continued efforts to make the port town a Garbage Free Town. The MMC
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UDF panel recommends drought relief measures
The United Democratic Front (UDF) liaison committee which met recommended to Kerala State Government various drought relief measures including doubling the compensation of Rs 1,500 per hectare of
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An ad a day will keep voters away
How bizarre can a government policy decision get? India s first national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for people affected by development projects was declared through a one page advertisement, even though the detailed policy paper isn t ready
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Costly dodge
Australia's decision to stay out of the Kyoto Protocol
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Conspiracy theory, Left sees red
Decentralisation programme is now rocking its initiators. The CPI(M) this February 15 expelled M P Parameswaran, one of the founders of the Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) and a champion of
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• The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade has now become international law. The convention enables
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MADHYA PRADESH: Bureaucrats rule
Why was a chief minister praised for bringing in decentralisation voted out? RICHARD MAHAPATRA finds out
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Stemming the rot
Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Nikolai Tanayev, has vowed to prevent the country from becoming a uranium wasteland. His statement followed a public outcry against a Kyrgyz company's plans to process
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Water conservation: flowing on
For four years, Vankhidiya village in Sagar district has been making bori bandhaans (check dams). The panchayat buys the cement and villagers provide labour. "The panchayat charges Rs 50 per acre for
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Gruelling schedule
Targets set for creating and managing protected areas. But will they be met?
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Break the Deadlock
In 1995, many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi turmeric for its wound healing properties. Patents are usually given to creations that are deemed useful and involve an inventive st
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No unanimity
Different organisations define traditional knowledge differently
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Each one of a kind
Some <i>sui generis</i> legislations
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Widespread poisoning
Arsenic has contaminated groundwater in over 12 districts of Pakistan's Punjab and Sindh provinces. The groundwater of the region was declared "dangerous' by the Pakistan Council for Research on
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Cascading threat
India's Mahalisagar barrage, sited in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, has become a cause for woe for Nepal. The structure, which has 15 sluice gates, will inundate 150 hectares (ha) of
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Relative remedy
The Caspian Sea has been rapidly losing nutrients in the north of Iran due to uncontrolled growth in the number of comb jellyfish. But finally Iran seems to have found an antidote: Beroe ovata
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In Court
hope of deliverance: The Supreme Court has asked the Union government to implement an action plan to rehabilitate subsidence-affected people around the Raniganj and Jharia coalfields in West Bengal
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Precariously employed
Women face the brunt of globalisation and trade