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School for scandal
Nidhi Jamwal speaks to K Jagannath, ex chair of the Bellandur panchayat
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Snippets
• Italy has been given a final warning by the European Commission for not implementing two rulings of the European Court of Justice on waste landfills. • The Malaysian state of Terengganu
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Amlikuntla village
Kosgi <i>mandal</i>, Mahbubnagar district
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Doomsday vault in Arctic to save crop diversity
A doomsday vault is being built in the Arctic. Scientists expect the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. Located on the remote Svalbard Island, roughly
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Tsunami hits again
A tsunami has once again hit the Java islands of Indonesia. Four-metre high waves, which crashed into the western and central-southern coast of the islands on July 17, were triggered by a series of
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IN COURT
Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk
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'Britons waste maximum energy'
BRITONS are the worst offenders when it comes to energy waste, says a recent survey carried out by the Energy Saving Trust (a UK-based NGO that addresses damaging effects of climate change) in five
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Ramsar convention
Commitment to wetlands, biodiversity The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty that provides the framework for conserving wetlands and using them sustainably. Adopted at the Iranian city
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Lax easing: Change system, share benefits
In the absence of stringent laws and strong institutions, mining remains one of the most unregulated of activities in the country despite its huge social and environmental fallouts. It may be
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Definitions
Oxford English Dictionary A large tract of land covered with trees and undergrowth sometimes mixed with pastures (in proper names also a district formerly forest but now cultivated); the trees
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Thin end of wedge
Why Vedanta's success will be bad news Vedanta isn't the only company eyeing Orissa's high-quality bauxite. At least two more companies
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Dispute settling mechanism?
Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a coastal nation has sovereign rights for exploring and exploiting its continental shelf. The shelf itself can extend to at least 200 nautical miles
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Laissez Faire
Government sits back, carmakers make hay No one knows where to place the ultra-low-cost cars in the overall paradigm shift in technology in India. Small cars and downsizing have begun to find
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Pakistani architect Arif Hasan on low income settlement projects
Pakistani architect and town planner Arif Hasan is well known for his involvement in designing low-income settlement programmes, for which he has set up an independent initiative in Karachi. He talks
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Untapped resource
Sukhomajri's forest was responsible for its prosperity. The villagers protected and regenerated a 400-hectare (ha) tract mainly comprising khair trees (Acacia catechu). In the 1980s, the forest
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Unaccounted for groundwater
Sixty-four per cent of Orissa's industrial units are using groundwater through bore wells. Going by government data, 145 of the 225 industrial units in the state are using groundwater, while the rest
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Parking brakes
Beijing authorities are considering increasing parking fees in busy areas to discourage people from driving and encourage use of public transport. Areas likely to be targeted are busy commercial districts like <font class="UCASE">cbd</font> and Zhongguancun, and congested areas like Yansha and Beijing Western Station, according to the Beijing Muni-cipal Development and Reform Commission.
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Andaman & Nicobar turtles face extinction
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are the third most significant biodiversity hotspot in India. With a coastline of 1962 kilometres and many beaches straddling small isolated islands, the region provides an ideal nesting habitat for primarily four species o