The political economy of defecation
IN MANY ways, the Ganga Action Programme is a very ambitious scheme. It aims to clean up one of the world"s longest rivers -- using sophisticated and expensive technologies. But the project
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Surat: banking on money
A cash rich municipality and a set of dedicated officials have made Surat s waste management system a successful but expensive exercise
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Phase out postponed
Delhi government fails to rein in diesel bus operators
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Mumbai
<div style="width:100%;"> Mumbai on the West coast of India is the financial capital of India. The City has grown phenomenally over the years with several suburbs and extended suburbs being added to
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CHINA
A draft law in China seeks to bring down noise pollution. The law authorises municipal authorities to crack down on everything from deafening construction sites to boisterous folk dancing. Some
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INDIA
• The municipal corporation of Shimla has finalised a Rs 7.5 crore integrated waste management plan for the town. Under the plan, separate arrangement will be made for the disposal of solid
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UNITED NATIONS
To combat drug trafficking across Pakistan and Iran, a new communications network across their common border will be set under the aegis of the United Nations Drug Control Programme. The
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Pricing the precious
A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis
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Magnificient no more
The oak, an integral part of Kumaon life, might soon be extinct from the region
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Schooled in self rule
What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI
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Capital gains
EIGHT years of sustained excavations has located the lost city of Urkesh in what is now northeastern Syria near the Turkish border, The find was reported recently by Giorgio Buccellati, director
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UGANDA
Around 2,000 doctors from all over the world assembled for the ninth international conference on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, which opened on December 10 at Kampala, the capital of
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Planter of Indore
A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased
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Calcutta's sorrow
There is growing evidence that the recent outbreak of the malaria (plasmodium falciparum) epidemic in Calcutta is related to the clogged drainage system of the city. And this is because the state
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• An acute water crisis has sparked fears about the survival of thousands of hippos in Tanzania's Katavi National Park. The shortage is being blamed on farmers upstream of the Katuma river
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Timber talks
The progress over the years
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Opening the floodgates
The Hirakud dam does not control flood, it causes it
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• Another 5 million families will benefit from the Antyodaya Anna Yojana, a government of India endeavour to supply highly subsidised foodgrains to those living below the poverty line. At
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Final solutions
Scientists are using the DNA as a computer to solve complex problems
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Haul your own garbage
Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload