Grameen Shakti
Grameen Shakti (GS) has developed one of the most successful market based programs with a social objective for popularizing Solar Home Systems (SHSs) including other renewable energy technologies to millions
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On the rat track
Plague pathogen movement varies with changing rodent ecology
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MONEYMAKERS
saving species: UK-based Glaxo Well come will help save the endangered medicinal Leech from extinction. The blood sucking creature is used by doctors to prevent blood clotting. The pharmaceutical
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UNITED NATIONS
In the next 60 minutes, around 600 persons will add to the growing number of people infected by the deadly HIV virus. Worse, more than 60 children will die due to the infection. This has been stated
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Small-scale bioenergy initiatives
This report is based on a series of 15 international case studies conducted between September and November 2008 under a joint initiative of FAO and the PISCES Energy Research Programme Consortium funded by DFID. The case studies focussed on developing an improved understanding of the linkages between Livelihoods and small-scale bioenergy initiatives.
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Towards a global anti-poverty convention
ONE OF Bangladesh"s leading environmental NGOs, the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), has taken the lead in rectifying a major lacuna in the Rio agenda. Dealing with poverty should have
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Cloud forests dry up
Deforestation is drying out cloud forests
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Volvo launches new range of buses
By 2015, it expects more than 50 % of sales to come from Asia Volvo on Thursday launched its new range of buses, comprising city bus and coaches, aimed at inter-State routes and cities. The expanded
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US may impose sanctions on India over Iran oil imports imimimports from Iran
Obama administration officials say they are concerned India may run afoul of a new US law restricting payments for Iranian oil, forcing the White House to impose sanctions on one of its most important allies in Asia. So far this year, India is failing to cut back its purchases of Iranian oil, which may force President Barack Obama to impose penalties as early as June 28, according to several US officials.
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Malaria and the wrath of God
A WELL-KNOWN quasi-ecumenical argument against the existence of God is the existence of the mosquito: apart from being frustratingly acrobatic and musically demented, the little bugger serves no
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Efforts to collect germplasm gather momentum
Though the importance of neem is well known it finds place on the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation's priority list efforts to collect neem germplasm are only now beginning to pick up at an international level.
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Energy consumption patterns vary in Asia
EMISSIONS of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides play a key role in the formation of acid rain and consequently, the acidification of soils. Production of nitrogen oxides leads to ozone build-up in
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Smoke laws first enacted in city of joy
Because of its political importance in the British empire, Calcutta was one of the first cities to regulate smoke emissions. But legislation failed to keep up with technology and today, the city is one of the most polluted in the world.
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The ACD of malaria control
With the discovery that not all four anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, programmes to control the disease need fresh appraisal
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UNDP interested in learning about Kerala e-governance
Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, Practice Director, Democratic Governance Group, United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) has expressed interest in visiting Kerala and learning about the government’s
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Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
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Blueprints for change
THE CONFERENCE has just ratified the Earth Charter, the name of which has been changed to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development at the behest of developing countries. This puts
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The whiff of money
Equipped with special sensor rays, this high grade counterfeit bill detector developed by the Japanese is capable of identifying even the most sophisticated fake bills
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Moneymakers
SWEET REMEMBRANCE: Students can now literally chew their way to better memorv. Madras-based Velvette International Pharma is all set to launch a wonder drug - chocolates with memory-enbancing
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Tariff row
WTO invalidates US duty on steel imports