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Pune s plan

A voluminous document promises "the translation of visions into missions, missions into actions and actions into outcomes'.
- 30/08/2006
How microbes cope up with variations in temperature

how do microbes adjust to wide variations in temperature? To understand this, a team of scientists led by Avigdor Scherz of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel compared two different kinds
- 14/10/2006
- Down To Earth
Interlinked

What s common to Judum, Essar, Tatas?
- 30/10/2006
- - Industry
News Snippets

 Kriti Infoplace, a development documentation centre has released its annual diary-cum-people's movement chronicle for 2006. Recording the most prominent and pertinent campaigns for water, human rights, environment, the diary provides a comprehensive report on the year gone by. 
- 30/01/2006
Forest commission report on forest rights bill validates government's stand

Forest commission fails to innovate
- 29/06/2006
- Ministry of Environment and Forests
Reservation debate

The anti-reservation agitation sparked off by Union human resources development minister Arjun Singh's announcement of an increase in reservations in institutions of higher education, including medical colleges, highlighted several issues.
- 14/07/2006
Bad planning

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- 30/08/2006
Netting order

Kenya, which has been trying to develop its fishing industry, recently cracked down on illegal fishing in Homa Bay and Rachuonyo districts, where small-scale commercial fishing is rampant.
- 29/04/2005
In Court

Pointless: A US federal appeals court recently heard arguments on a five-year-old battle over whether the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2)
- 14/05/2005
Union pangs

Uk patients flood Spain's free healthcare
- 29/11/2005
- - Health
  - Spain
Losing ground

High rates of soil erosion trouble India
- 14/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Online

www.povertyandconservation.info promoting good practice This site aims to promote good environment practices by linking conservation and poverty. It is a project led by the Poverty and
- 30/05/2006
Sharp practice

The current Indian standard for caffeine in soft drinks is lenient
- 14/08/2006
Hyderabad blues

Hyderabad has submitted a wish list worth Rs 20,017 crore to MoUD, under JNNURM. The ministry's central sanctioning and monitoring committee has approved Rs 379 crore and released Rs 33.22 crore as the first instalment. 
- 30/08/2006
Regional Trade Agreements dividing north south trade?

The World Trade Organization (wto) was supposed to be the driver of free trade in a globalised economy. But this does not seem to be the case. Regional trade agreements (rtas) seem to be ruling the
- 30/10/2006
- OECD
News Snippets

 The film, Cherub of the Mist follows two zoo-bred pandas as they become the first ever released in the Singalila National Park in China. It reveals the mating, nest-building and rearing of new-born cubs.
- 30/03/2006
News snippets

 Parkland Medical Center in Derry, the US, has been honoured for becoming mercury-free. It got the
- 30/05/2006
Trading charges

MCI is the body that is supposed to monitor and enforce standards of medical education in both the private and state sector. mci, a statutory body under the mohfw , was established under the provisions of the Indian Medical Council (imc) Act, 1933. 
- 14/07/2006
Standard spiel

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- 14/08/2006
Right sight

GIS helps determine waste disposal sites for Guwahati
- 14/05/2005
- Down To Earth