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Blog on Vidarbha suicides

Technology has taken over. Now, there is a new system to keep count of the number of suicide deaths by farmers in Vidarbha. It's the blog way. To maintain a regular electronic update of the suicides,
- 30/08/2006
- - Industry
IN SHORT

vehicles restricted
- 29/09/2006
- Ministry of Environment and Forests
Zones of conflict

Land acquisition has united farmers
- 14/11/2006
- - Industry
ONLINE

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- 29/11/2006
- - Industry
The good, the bad and a few uglies flow

Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow. Despite its stringent environmental regulations, the European Union (eu) reports more failures than successes. So far only activists were crying
- 29/09/2004
- Down To Earth
- - Environment
  - European Union (EU)
At last

A bit of concerted action against artificial sweeteners
- 14/04/2005
- - Industry
Fisheries Census 2005

The government seems to have learnt its lesson from the acute difficulty it faced in assessing the true extent of post-tsunami damage to the country's fishing community. It initiated The National
- 14/05/2005
- - Fisheries
  - Tsunami
  - Fisherfolk
  - India
Medical help

Students' Initiative
- 30/07/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Industry
Snippets

 Ruling against 12 states, three cities, and many environmental groups, the US Court of Appeals decided recently that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not obliged to regulate CO2
- 30/08/2005
- - Industry
Open to experiment?

Committees set up to review ICAR
- 14/09/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Industry
Thick and fast

A high growth sector difficult to regulate
- 29/11/2005
- - Industry
The hidden subsidy

Mining helps industry, not people
- 30/12/2005
- - Industry
South Asia

controversial bill: A new bill that seeks to set up Sri Lanka's National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol has kicked off a huge controversy. The bill aims at reducing consumption and bans
- 30/01/2006
- - Tobacco
  - Mining
  - Coal
  - Legislation
  - Bangladesh
  - Sri Lanka
Flags of Connivance

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- 27/02/2006
- - Industry
Vox popul

Kerala HC quashes Union ministry s clearance
- 29/04/2006
Chicalim villagers in Goa have their say, their way

on november 26, 2006, nearly 1,000 villagers of Chicalim, a village on the banks of the Zuari river in Goa, gathered for an unprecedented third gram sabha to vote against the Bharati Shipyard
- 30/12/2006
- Down To Earth
- - Coastal Development
  - Shipping
  - Conflicts
  - Industry
  - Gram Sabhas
  - India
  - Goa
The Bandipur Brazil corridor

In Bandipur: dung sold at Rs 3,000 a lorry load.In Brazil: a ravaged coffee crop. Asks nitin sethi : what s the relation?
- 30/10/2004
- Down To Earth
- - Agriculture
 - Animal Dung
 - Coffee
 - Trade
 - Bandipur NP
 - India
 - Karnataka
We did our bit

Amongst the tsunami affected in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu
- 27/02/2005
- Down To Earth
Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India s industrial policy
- 14/07/2005
- Down To Earth
Song without succour

Live8
- 30/07/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Poverty
 - Africa