Doses of trouble
India continues to use banned liver damaging drug
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Makhane ka parantha Roast and powder enough makhana to fill one cup. Boil one medium sized boiled potato. Mash potato and knead with makhana powder. Mix salt and chopped green chillies to
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Slipping through the net
US body targets Kazaa users after futile bid to restrain music provider
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Taste of toxicity
New study reiterates the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide
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Alternative remedy
Ayurvedic medical therapy is fast catching up in the United Arab Emirates (uae). The newly inaugurated Ayurvedic Herbal Health Centre, the first complete ayurvedic institution in the uae, has
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No pulp fiction
An ecofriendly process to convert paper mill waste into hydrogen
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Bird vs bread & butter
A controversy is raging over ambelopoulia
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Rooting out biopiracy
Venezuelan project aims to protect indigenous plant database
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Traffic signal goes green
A new, innovative traffic light that lasts much longer than traditional ones and has better energy efficiency and almost no operation and maintenance cost has been developed by a Danish firm,
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Deadly delicacy
Where gentle persuasion fails, shock therapy works. In an attempt to wean diners off shark fin soup, Singapore-based environmental group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is planning to put up
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Jumbo seizure
In the largest ever haul of ivory in China, a 3.6-tonne shipment from Kenya was seized in Shanghai. The consignment, intercepted at Waigaoqiao Port, included 64 packages of smuggled ivory containing
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Stiff Penalty
In a significant decision, the Supreme Court (SC) directed the Assam forest department to pay Rs 1,000 per month against every hectare of encroached forestland in the state. "This amounts to Rs 28
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Still suffering
More than a decade after cessation of hostilities, the Gulf region continues to reel under the ravages of war. Kuwait recently revealed that oil well fires ignited by Iraqi troops in the 1991 war and
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The climate-forest continuum
I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly
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Going off course
As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed
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Coastly affair
Andhra Pradesh is hard selling its coastal districts as ideal industrial locations owing to the effluent discharge facility
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Saraswati underground
Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo channels and put them to good use
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Present imperfect
FLY BY GOA - THE CHANGING SHORES . P V Sathe . 30 Minutes . August . 2002 . Price: Rs 500 This gripping film captures the changes that have taken place in Goa in the last 30 years in just 30
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Beautification drive
Bis Hazari lake in the buffer zone of Nepal's Royal Chitawan National Park (RCNP) is getting a facelift. Efforts are on to sanitise and beautify the picturesque waterbody. The district development
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Recycling pact
Pakistan's Karachi district government has struck a deal with the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to reuse treated effluent. Under the pact, the city government will provide a sewage