Bad blood
A committee of transfusion medicine experts has suggested that accepting blood from professional donors be immediately suspended because of the risk of infection. This has put the Union health
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Hunger's satire
Hindi poet Jayprakash Shakdvipiya has come out with a collection of his poems on the travails of the Bhil tribals. Kasak bhuke Bhil ki has 26 satires describing the benefits (sic) given to the
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Ode to trash
"A R Ammon's poem Garbage is a long ode to trash. It is also an autobiographical meditation and a reflection on humanity, which, according to the poet, is a form of garbage too." New York Times
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Cleaner vehicles
The coordination committee of 4 ministries -- environment and forests, petroleum, surface transport and industries -- has decided to advance the enforcement of auto-emission norms specified for 1996
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Misrepresenting maps
"NO MAP is a throuoghly objective value-neutral device for describing distances and locations", says Mark Monmonier in his book, Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroveresy. There is an
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Fly ash phoenix
Union minister of state for power P V Rangaiah Naidu has said that his ministry is considering the setting up of a National Ash Utilisation and Marketing Corp to promote utilisation of fly-ash from
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Green wheles
The Green Buyer's Car Guide rates the environmental friendliness of various cars. It ranks each model's polluting potential from exhaust pipe emissions, engines, fuel systems and airconditioners. An
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Anti AIDS scheme
In a serious bid to tackle AIDS, the Union government has launched a Rs 222.6 crore World Bank-assisted plan for the prevention and control of the disease. Part of the funding for the multisectoral
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Power bait
Following in Maharashtra's footsteps, the West Bengal power department has unveiled a package including time-of-the-day (ToD) metering and tariff concessions to cut costs and raise non-peak hour
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Rights infringed
In the face of severe criticism by Union environment minister Kamal Nath, among others, the Madhya Pradesh government has agreed to defer implementation of its new "nistar policy." The controversial
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Oil from Acacia
N B L Prasad and G Azeemoddin at the Hyderabad-based Oil Technological Research Institute have discovered that the seeds of an Australian species of Acacia can be crushed to yield oil while the
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Wider exposure
A department of science and technology-sponsored study on the brain drain from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC), found that a lack of a
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Driven up the barren hills
Scientists working on department of science and technology's high altitude projects face a bleak future
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Squatters' rights
The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights
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In the past lies the future
From being a romantic quest for treasures and lost civilisations, archaeology has now come down to earth, increasingly associated with reconstructing the apparently esoteric: the thought processes of ancient peoples. But travelling through the maze of tim
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Commoner's scientist passes away
Cyril Ponnamperuma's death leaves a void in the world's scientific community
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200 years of groping in the dark...
...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe
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Hybrid gains
A rice hybrid developed in India can help reap an extra Rs 2,500 per ha
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Watershed ruling on Narmada
The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations
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Matching wits on fluid issues
THE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS: • Fresh calculation of the quantum of flow to avoid revision of plan priorities • Efforts to achieve a 60 per cent irrigation efficiency •