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No ozone depletion over India yet
WITH so much worry about the rapid ozone depletion taking place in various parts of the earth, Indian scientists are closely monitoring the ozone layer over India for possible depletion trends. Opinions are many and varied.
According to S K Srivastava, head of the National Ozone Centre in New …
According to S K Srivastava, head of the National Ozone Centre in New …
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Vilas Salunke
Grain Gaurav Pratislithan
Post Box No 1202
67 Hadapsar Industrial Estate
Puna 411 013
R K Patil
Centre for Applied Systems and Analysis
Ganesh Kutir 1st Floor
68 Prarthana Samaj Road
Ville Parts (E)
Bombay 400 057
Anna Hazare
Village Ralegan Siddhi
Taluka Painter
Alunadhagar district
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Grain Gaurav Pratislithan
Post Box No 1202
67 Hadapsar Industrial Estate
Puna 411 013
R K Patil
Centre for Applied Systems and Analysis
Ganesh Kutir 1st Floor
68 Prarthana Samaj Road
Ville Parts (E)
Bombay 400 057
Anna Hazare
Village Ralegan Siddhi
Taluka Painter
Alunadhagar district
…
Neem contraceptive
NEEM is being tested as a contraceptive that can be injected or applied in the vagina. While the contraceptive effect of the injection is expected to last for as long as six months, the vaginal application is for use at the time of intercourse and is 1b believed to be …
Water squabbles
CLOSE on the heels of the bitter land wars in the West Asia comes the bitter conflict over water. Israel and the West Bank Palestinians are at odds over scarce water; its Arab neighbours - Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria all contend that they have considerable legal rights to the …
Taking big business to the trash cans
WITH more and more local bodies showing a red bottomline, some of the core urban services may soon be up for grabs, if entrepreneurs are willing to take them on. The sectors under debate include water supply, garbage collection, sewage management and solid waste disposal, sanitation treatment plants and even …
High yield Heera
A scientist in Nagpur, A S Khalatkar, has claimed to have developed a new variety of mustard - Hoora - that will yield oil cheaply. The improved variety is a low-input crop requiring little iffigation and fertiliser and no weeding. It has a high output of 4 quintals to 4.8 …
Green and surviving
IT is at a time like this that the famous Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district -- the handiwork of a social worker, Anna Hazare -- stands out with a difference. It is green and it is surviving. There is indeed stress but no distress.
The village has received …
The village has received …
Mothballing nitrogen
THE Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) has devised now techniques of using fertilisers - through the split application and the deep placement methods and using granules rather than powder - which will prevent the loss of nitrogen into the atmosphere and the water table, and result in higher crop yields …
Transplanted maize taking root
WHILE rice transplantation is a traditional practice in Asia, maize transplantation, a fairly recent technique, is now gaining ground in many countries. The technique helps farmers harvest a third crop in areas where none would have been possible because of a short summer.
North Korea has already doubled its …
North Korea has already doubled its …
View wars
TWO resident families in California's Beverly Hills, which houses many Hollywood stars, were recently fined US $1.2 million for cutting down a neighbour's trees to get a view. The Views Wars, the ultimate in upperclass environmentalism, is resulting in view-mongers being dragged into court, and several US towns have passed …