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Each time I visit the us I am struck by the lack of serious news on its many television channels and newspapers. The media here clearly follows the dictum if it bleeds it leads . In other words,
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Squatters' rights
The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights
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Fishing in troubled waters
People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada s biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural resources
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Too close to the sun
The internationally funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter
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Warped science
Aping Western trends in science has given Indian research priorities a skewed perspective
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Forests of fortune
By allowing industrial plantations on forest land, the ministry of environment and forests has become profiteering industry's captive
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Face to face
Leading firms are using various technologies to grab a share of the gigantic market created by the need to provide the Indian electorate with identity cards
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No alternative
Asia turns to nuclear power as the demand for energy soars
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Where will the moolah come from?
The Third World feels that the move by the industrialised countries to link ADB's lending policies to social objectives may hamper growth in Asia
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Caught by the horns
The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians
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Security begins in the stomach
LITTLE attention has been paid to the effects of current and emerging trade arrangements, vis-a-vis GATT, on Indian food security issues. A number of related issues have been given more serious
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The liquid heat trap
A giant pond at a dairy in Gujarat is the world's largest water storehouse of the sun's energy and heats about 80,000 litres of water everyday
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The gassing of a village
A petroleum product factory continues to chug out its poison, despite a decade of protests and official ire
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Rights for the poor's knowledge
THE government's efforts to develop legislation to control access to the country's wild as well as cultivated biodiversity are indeed laudable: the ministry of agriculture has already prepared a bill
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Squeezed to the last drop
Who will fill the city's depleting aquifers?
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Exploiting earthworms for fertilisers
Vermicampost worm excreta is emerging as a feasible substitute for chemical fertilisers
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Dinosaur age ministers
Naik s statement implies that a poor country like India, which otherwise wants to be declared a nuclear power, is so incompetent and third rate that it must live with pollution
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Forgetting science
Water harvesting structures do not reduce the quantity of water flowing into the lower dams, they only streamline the flow over the year
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Whose responsibility is it anyway?
Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned
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