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Hopes in bloom
@sayantanbera Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
A Sikkimese daily carried a cartoon strip on its front page last February. Two honey bees look perplexed while a fellow bee is perched atop a flower, inebriated and moaning “Oh! My God”.
Trial and error
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
In the past eight years, 2,868 deaths have occurred during clinical drug trials across India. But only 89 have been attributed to such trials and compensation has been paid in 45 cases, said the Union health minister on March 5 in Parliament.
Inheritance of loss
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
The year 2012 set major records. A quick Google search reveals it was the hottest year in US history and second wettest one in the UK. Data from 2011 and 2010 show similar extremes. But not only is climate change getting worse, it is also getting costlier.
The sinking ship
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
An overwhelmed Jeevabai rushes towards her daughter-in-law to show a photograph of a camel herd swimming in sea water. Curious, other women of the house in Kachchh’s Laiyari village surround the two.
Half-baked mega project
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
When completed, it will be India’s biggest lift irrigation project. Nineteen mammoth lifts will pull water from the Pranahita and Godavari rivers; there will be seven large reservoirs, big pumping stations, canals and tunnels spanning 1,060 km.
Victim of its success
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
