Developing distress
The birth pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon
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Tapping into the source
These are the days of frenetic crossborder data networking. Electronic cilia have crawled into almost every nook in the world where information could be waiting to be tapped or inserted. Access to a gigantic, and growing, well of information is a few keyb
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The wilder side of environment
Why are pretty films on wildlife so much more interesting than no holds barred environmental documentaries?
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The poison piles up
Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history"s deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. India needs the technical knowledge of the Western world. Union Carbide recently made available its vast scie
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All for the people
International organisations concentrating on the moral and material uplift of the underpriviledged
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Brain drain backs up
India finally tries to give real incentives to stop indigenous intelligence from migrating abroad
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Computers go off - track
The Indian Railways has raised a stink by opting for an outdated Canadian software programme for controlling its freight operations
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Imminent deluge
Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world"s burgeoning waste trade
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The Root Of All Evil
Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains denuded in the process
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India will soon play a major role
SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to environment and more specifically, forests. Eloquent on issues on which there are strong perceptional differences bet
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This land is our land
If anything can help Papua New Guineans find the "unique way" enshrined in their Constitution, it is their traditional land ownership system.
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Jammed!
The state of our nation
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Fiscal fitness
While commercial vehicle operators appeal to the Supreme Court to review its order on the phase-out of 15-year old vehicles, the Delhi government ponders over a new financial scheme for them. But will the mechanism work?
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Garbage to gold
In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.
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Urban wildlife and disappearing commons
"What are we supposed to feel when a sarkari animal carries our children away? Are we still supposed to love the animal and the sarkar?" This plea by an activist working with poor people living in
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Dialogue of the Deaf
<p>One of the major events organized by the Ministry of Urban Development is the Urban Mobility Conference held in New Delhi in the first week of December each year. The theme of the latest conference held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2010 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi was “Sustainable Urban Transport: Accessibility and Inclusive Cities”.
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Upholding the right to hygiene
The citizens of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh continue to put up with a filthy, malodorous town despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling 13 years ago, which held it mandatory for municipalities to provide sanitation facilities.
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CETPs: in fashion
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef)
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The sounding board
At the onset of the Green Rating Project, cse set up a project advisory panel ( pap ) comprising industry leaders, judges, research and development experts, policymakers, academicians,
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Who prospers from development?
Rajender Singh, chairperson and managing director of National Thermal Power Corp described to Down To Earth the way NTPC is tackling issues relating to environment and rehabilitation