The beacon
Several social groups are trying to restore the link between Hinduism and the environment
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Simple systems available to treat sewage
Planners should be made aware of easy techniques that can recycle waste water using little electricity.
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People's participation in resource management
WHATEVER their area of work, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have made the most headway in involving people in managing their natural resources. Says one NGO activist, "Local people are very
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It's a damp squib
Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic Christian thought dominate the report
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The Redeemer
Dada, as a child in a Marathi family, was a witness to the discordant practices. But unlike most people, he couldn't turn a Nelson's eye to existing conventions. Finally in 1958, he founded Swadhyaya
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Kheda: Forgotten glory
This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes
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Pesticide plot
The powerful pesticide lobby campaigns for a deadly killer that has been linked to many diseases
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Saving Krishna s forests
This is the story of Friends of Vrindavan, a unique experiment in conservation, which brings to attention the important role that India s religious traditions can play in protecting the environment
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49 industrial units in Gujarat receive closure notice
GPCB issues closure noticeto 49 industrial units
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Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later
The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the Big One to come, again without warning?
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To get in touch...
Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness Lilavatiben, Lalbhais Bungalow Civil Campus Road, Shahi Bagh Ahmedabad 380 004 Women's Health Forum 839, 23rd Main 10th Cross
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Birds Of Burden
Chickens help to transport wood in the forests of Gujarat
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Gujarat announces Rs 13 crore scheme for state's poor
gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things,
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Republic quaked
Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d
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Lawless prospectors
Illegal mining in Gujarat exposed When Porbandar-based Saurashtra Chemicals, owned by detergent giant Nirma, lodged a police complaint in the first week of October 2006 alleging mineral theft
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Web Exclusive: Cost of breathing polluted air
A recent World Bank report shows that the economic cost of damage to public health from increased air pollution is still very high in Indian cities. The study, India Strengthening Institutions for
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Pesticide jeopardy
<font class="UCASE">a division</font> Bench of Kerala High Court has once again directed the state government to conduct another epidemiological study in the cashew plantation areas in Kerala and trace out the factors responsible for health problems in areas such as Padre and Cheemeni in Kasaragod district. <br>
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Industry & Environment
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY<br> Nearly three decades after the world woke up to issues pertaining to protection of the environment, precious little has been done by world leaders to put environment and peoplefirst. In developed cou
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Celestial guest
Hale Bopp, the brightest comet of this century, promises to shed new light on the birth of the universe
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Problems behind the pugmarks
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary the home of the endangered Asiatic lion to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest dwellers in both areas sense that their lives wi