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Rimjhim Jain
Rimjhim Jain
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1995-2-28
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest-dwellers in both areas sense that their lives will never be the same
1994-11-30
A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal
1995-4-15
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
1995-3-15
Poachers and smugglers continue to snip through the tatty net of existing Indian wildlife protection laws
1995-2-28
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest-dwellers in both areas sense that their lives will never be the same
1995-2-28
Scientists working on department of science and technology's high altitude projects face a bleak future
1995-2-15
... and the government's new set of rules to ensure safety standards in DNA-based drugs
1994-12-31
India finally tries to give real incentives to stop indigenous intelligence from migrating abroad
1994-12-31
The recent exercise of expanding the list of polluting industries has come under flak as industries already on the list get away with defaulting
1994-12-15
The Delhi administration's move to make the Asola and Bhatti sanctuaries exclusively protected areas ring alarm bells in the local villages
1994-11-30
A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal
1994-11-15
In this GATT era, Indian drugs and pharmaceutical scientists have belatedly begun to focus on drug, rather than on process, development
1994-10-15
A recent report on the Narmada Sagar and Omkareshwar projects raises fears of the loss of biodiversity in the region
1994-9-30
Furious at losing their traditional rights over land, residents of a south Delhi village say...
1994-9-30
Indian authorities were shaken out of lethargy by the recent attempt by foreign nationals to smuggle valuable species of insects out of the country
1994-8-15
Waste-recycling and optimal resource-use is giving the Capital's prison a new purpose
1994-8-15
Several Indian firms, eyeing easy profits, are cultivating exotic varieties of flowers for the Dutch market but paying little heed to ecological consequences
1994-7-31
Himalayan conservation gets a start at a recent seminar in the Capital
1994-7-15
...critics of the government's recent draft on women's issues would rather not have it
1994-6-30
The van panchayats of the Uttar Pradesh hills were created to restore the vital link between villagers and their forests. Today, they are prime takeover targets of the forest and revenue departments, whose main aim is to exploit the forests. KOSHY CHERAIL went to Almora, RIMJHIM JAIN to Nainital and RAHUL SHRIVASTAVA to Lucknow to see at first hand the manoeuvres of the departments
1994-6-30
As the rumble of traffic in the Capital gets louder, experts come up with various ways to clear the clatter
1994-5-31
The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics
1994-5-15
The Indian government will soo introduce measures to ease annual environmental statements to keep industry's nose as clean as humanly possible
1994-3-15
The American serpentine leaf miner that infiltrated into India about two years ago is destroying agricultural crops
1994-2-28
A department of biotechnology project to popularise the production of biofertilisers has recently been approved.
1994-2-15
Confusing admissions rules afflict India's premier medical institute.
1994-2-15
A software programme project that will be a boon to those who want to learn Sanskrit is threatened by a lack of funds.
1994-1-31
Children are more likely to develop the spirit of scientific inquiry when they treat science like a game than when they have to study it.
1994-1-31
With a sharp fall in India's tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests has decided to set up special teams to deal with poaching.
1993-9-30
Locust swarms are the bane of farmers in more than 66 countries. Small wonder then that the locust is the only insect that has a global committee working to outwet it
1993-9-15
Officials claim the locust problem is under control, but unless millions of hoppers -- young locusts -- stalking the deserts are exterminated quickly, things could really get out of control
1993-8-15
The Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station has managed to secure a World Bank loan of $400 million, but the allegations of environmental degradation levelled against it are mounting
1993-7-31
Two video films portray the extremes to which humans go in dealing with other life forms to satisfy their needs.
1993-7-15
The Care for the Environment Contest, which was held in New Delhi to mark World Environment Day, met with a response that far surpassed the expectations of its organisers.
1993-5-15
A Supreme Court order demanding immediate closure of about 250 mines in and around the Sariska Tiger Reserve has evoked little response from the Rajasthan government.
1993-4-30
Volcanic explosions don't only throw up a lot of dust and kill thousands of people. Even two years after a flare-up, weather patterns in distant places can be affected.
1993-4-30
A section of India's farmers emphatically supported the Dunkel Draft, saying it contains just what they have been demanding for years.
1993-4-15
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1993-3-15
Oil tanker spills compound the danger to the marine food chain by crude released into the sea in normal operations and seepage from the earth. Steps are now being taken to reduce the threat. The International Maritime Organisation is taking the initiative in monitoring
How come Andhra is left out of the mining loot story ? It is good for the nation if we learn to keep environmental and...
The UN environment report states that Ganga would disappear by 2030.There would be no need to train engineers or even Ganga...
A report published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology suggests that babies of...