Goa must grow but how?
The official blueprint Goa currently follows is the Regional Plan 2001. It was notified in 1986, and today there is unanimity that this plan has become redundant. For two compelling reasons
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Clamping wheels
Policy tools for managing parking demand A survey of literature from across the world shows demand for parking is infinite and no amount of supply can meet it. But carefully priced parking
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Arsenic levels rising in Bihar
oxygen, which makes up about 21 per cent of the Earth's atmosphere, might have made its appearance on the planet million of years earlier than what scientists had earlier thought. An analysis of a
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WRONGLY PUNISHED
Oktay Konyar, a leader of an environmental campaign in Turkey has been arrested. "I am being punished because I wanted the implementation of a court decision,' said Konyar. The residents of Ovacik
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Safety prescription
A ustralian authorities finally appear to be wising up to the nuclear risk. The State Emergency Management Committee of New South Wales has recommended the pre-distribution of iodine tablets to
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Busy preludes to biodiversity meet
Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing were taken up by two working groups of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD in December. The bod
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Partial good sense
Even as the case of widespread lead poisoning in Arica, a city in northern Chile, remains unresolved, the same problem has now raised its head in Santiago, Chile. Chilean authorities recently seized
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Peeling off important facts
• Outer skin of foodgrains contain vitamins, fibre and trace elements necessary for human growth • Apple skin has anti-cancer effect. Skin from an apple has the same antioxidant
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South Asia
Blunder tourism: Six months after the tsunami disaster, the inhabitants of Arugam Bay on Sri Lanka's east coast are protesting a government move ostensibly aimed at creating a safety buffer zone
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Unity in adversity
A grand mahapanchayat (mega assembly) was held on July 24, 2005, in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district by thousands of farmers demanding more water for irrigation. The protestors were opposing the
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South Asia
Energy plantations: Aiming at a renewable energy leap, the Sri Lankan government recently approved a proposal to declare gliricidia tree, traditionally used for fuel wood and fencing, as a national
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Elephantine shift
Moving an elephant was never meant to be easy. Obviously, the Kenya Wildlife Service's (kws's) much-publicised "single largest translocation of animals ever undertaken since Noah's Ark', comprising
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In Court
Hunter hunted: One of Cambodia's most infamous wildlife hunters has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for trapping and killing over 600 animals, many endangered. Earlier, much concern had
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Snippets
• Amidst rising public discontent about Hong Kong's plunging air quality, the Hong Kong-based energy giant China Light and Power (CLP) recently announced that it will increase its renewable
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Snippets
• Australian scientists digging in an Indonesian cave uncovered a jawbone that adds evidence to the existence of a tiny 18,000-year-old Hobbit-like species called Homo floresiensis, three
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Cursory commitment
Five companies making personal computers have failed to fulfill a pro-environment commitment to recycle old products in Hong Kong, claims a conservation group. The Friends of the Earth (foe), Hong
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Testing matter
New alternative testing methods, which will reduce the need for testing certain drugs and chemicals on animals, were recently approved by a scientific committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee
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Brazilian soy traders help preserve Amazon
Bowing to pressure from consumer and environmental groups, Brazilian soy traders have stopped buying soybeans grown in the Amazon basin for the time being. The move is an effort to preserve the
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Faltering mission
D N Tiwari, former member of the Planning Commission and the man behind the national mission programme on biodiesel, looks at the programme
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EC stops import of US long grain rice
Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its