Riveting saga of a river that gives and takes
Goutam Ghose's Padma Nadir Majhi depicts how poor fisherfolk, already vulnerable to nature's whims, are exploited by fellow humans.
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Prefect power
France has 58 million people living in 22 regions, 96 departments (counties) and 36,000 municipalities, varying in population size from 100 to 2 million. Two-thirds of the municipalities have less
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Smoke, drama and apathy
Has the Som distillery really restricted its operations as per government orders? Apparently not, as a <i>DTE </i> team finds out
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Lessons of a drought
Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is show
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Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas
Blames others for its failures. Is raring to destroy the CNG market by hiking prices
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Science through fun and games
To put together an exhibition on the environment for children was an excellent idea. Now, the ministry of environment and forests should consider taking it to rural areas.
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Delhi goes green with Environment Day contest
The Care for the Environment Contest, which was held in New Delhi to mark World Environment Day, met with a response that far surpassed the expectations of its organisers.
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Short shrift to environment
A recent festival of short films bombed by and large
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Environmental music
ENVIRONMENTAL issues seem to be fetching considerable mileage for television programmers who flood us from abroad. Even Baywatch last week featured an environmental issue: when one of the shapely
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Clear concepts, unclear courses
THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost
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Divide And Rule
Policies that alienate the people from control over their habitat can cost the country dearly in terms of green cover and air and water quality
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MONEYMAKERS
AQUA IS GOLD: Controversial it may be, but aquaculture still holds promise for many an entrepreneur. So much so that the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's leading bank, has
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Proposed Japanese "colony" encounters protests
A proposal for a township near Bangalore as a lure to bring in huge investments from Japan is encountering opposition from farm and environmental groups.
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Pruning prawn farmers' ambitions
The fisheries department sets new rules for acquafarmers to avoid the recurrence of a viral devastation
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Soiled schemes
SURVIVAL is still the most important factor in the lives of millions in the developing countries. Now is the time to look carefully at all its aspects. Recalling Darwin, learning to live with errors
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Ice caps may grow in higher temperatures
Research shows that a warmer earth may not melt polar ice and cause sea levels to rise, as has been feared so far.
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Bringing polluters to book
Balotra, an arid little town in Rajasthan, has a novel way of raising money to treat effluents from its mushrooming textile dyeing and processing industry.
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IMF Bank policies denude the environment
Dwindling forest covers are the ugly fallout for countries which had opted for projects funded by the IMF and the World Bank. The latter's careless attitude has incurred the wrath of environmentalists
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Weaving green into the budget
The Centre for Science and Environment recently interviewed a number of environmental experts, industrialists and economists to come up with a list of suggestions for green taxes and financial incentives:
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Colours of Nature
An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants