Killer industries
Government industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm flounting industries in Gujarat
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Chemical free abundance
After years of killing his fields with pesticides and fertilisers, a sapota grower rediscovered cultivation without chemicals
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Loot story
The systematic exploitation of the Dangs' forest wealth by outsiders is institutionalised in a colonial soap opera
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The joyride has just begun
No other country in the world puts its bicycles to as many uses as does India. This is original bike country
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Housing more funds
Warehousing Bill, a double edged sword for farmers
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Unveiling the past
People are now realising that the solutions to many modern problems lie buried somewhere in our traditional sciences
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Learning the mantra
<b>Report card:</b> The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, the government programme is an achievement<br> <b>Success level:</b> Good
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Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide
With the help of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a premier scientific research organisation, the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology Foundation (PPST), a science-based
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DISTRESS SIGNALS
New diseases are emerging with changes in the environment, some old diseases are also staging a comeback
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Maps of the world
Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
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Good shot
Apex court committee penalises chemical plant
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White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention
another attempt to bring chrysotile, the most common form of asbestos, under the prior informed consent list (pic) of the Rotterdam Convention has failed. Parties to this international treaty
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NGOs left holding the baby
The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary
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Pitching for sustainability in agriculture
Two films, shown recently in the Capital, focus on alternative farming strategies as a counterbalance to the ecologically destructive Green Revolution
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Widespread web
The threats from aerosols are all pervading
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A concession called SEZ, all for foreign exchange
Special Economic Zones barter away democracy
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Tragopan country
It's not often that a remote village finds a mention in government tourism brochures. Khonoma in Nagaland does. The village is not exactly an archetypal exotic destination. You have to withstand a two-hour, bone-rattling bus trip from Kohima to get there. But it's a trip worth taking if you are a wildlife enthusiast.
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Cloudy days for solar cooker
Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade old promotion campaign, only a few Indians own solar cookers and fewer still use them. Is the design, which is incompatible to Indian conditions, t
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Hell Hole
Gujarat industrialists are building a site to dump toxic wastes in Nandesari. The plans of the landfill, however, are severely flawed and it could soon lead to a major ecological disaster in the state. MANISH TIWARi reports from Vacloclara
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Behind the buzzword
The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised introspection and self-repair