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Dec 1-15, 2004
Cover Story
How is it that you can buy a map of India in Paris with details as fine as the location of all tyre puncture shops in Delhi (updated every six months)? And you cannot get it in Delhi itself?
An Indian satellite can map each square metre of the country, but information -- even at levels of hundreds of square kilometres -- evades people
A digitised map of India can be downloaded from Russian or US-based websites, but the Indian government labels, as 'restricted', the same information
How is it that map making private companies decide for clients where to locate their new factories (after mapping relevant resources such as water, lack of congestion) when a villager cannot even see, or access information to, the extent of soil moisture depletion before an impending drought?
Asks NITIN SETHI
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Farmers concoct pesticides out of colas
India has little idea of how to clean up Bhopal
A new community of nations is to be formed
Are antioxidants as effective against cancer as believed?
Government committee again delays norms for soft drinks
New US study directly links deaths with air pollution
More transparency in import of plant and animal products
Wide agreement to improve industry practices
Pakistan's fisherfolk launch movement against Rangers
Capital's hospitality industry will have to manage its waste
Spreads in European countries
Methane emitters to convert greenhouse gas into energy
Absence of laws makes China the new hub of primate research
Indian firms temporarily leave AIDS war zone
Fungal enzyme that can make biopesticides efficient
Chitosan can provide protection against typhoid
This can be a cheap solution for the arsenic menace
Drumstick molecule increases absorption of drugs
DNA exchange between plant species aided by their parasites
Overfishing also harms wildlife on land
Debris, into Karnaprayag
Now what's that?
Interview
The Centre For Scientific Research Trust (CSR), Auroville, Pondicherry has pioneered the decentralised wastewater treatment...
Factsheet
Natural selection favoured the survival of human ancestors who could run
Feature
Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market
Ideal for carrying agricultural produce and transport in rural areas
Gold and silver nanoparticles remove pesticides from water
Dam construction facilitates
Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra's Thane district?
Environment leaders to decide the future of the climate change convention
Debate
Rampant government corruption and faulty institutions bedevil agroforestry in India
The state holds water resources in trust; it exercises proprietory rights over them
Temple elephants live in utter misery
Opinion
But surely not more then carbon dioxide?
There's nothing virtual about the gene rush
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