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Feb 15-29, 2004
Cover Story
Think of an invasion, and the picture that comes to mind is usually that of planes and tanks, machines and men, shells and gunshots. But animal and plant species also run amok, especially when they enter an ecosystem where they didn't previously exist. After habitat destruction, NITIN SETHI tells us, invasive alien species are the biggest threat to world biodiversity
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The killing of two social activists has left behind a series of unanswered questions. On the evening of January 24 social activists Sarita and Maheshkant attended a meeting at Shabdo village in Bihar's Gaya district. Soon after the villagers saw them off they heard gunshots. They ran down to the main road in the neighbouring Rajabigha village and found Sarita lying in a pool of blood beside the motorcycle on which the two were returning to Fatehpur block 30km from the district headquarters in Gaya. She had been shot from so close that her temple bore burns from the firearm. Maheshkant lay in a ditch on the other side of the road also shot in the head...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee has finally delivered its verdict. Affirming that the Centre for Science and Environment's findings about the presence of pesticide residues in aerated water were correct, the panel dismissed as hot air soft drink manufacturers' claims that their products are safe
Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen's human-to-human transmission has surfaced in Vietnam. Two siblings in Hanoi are suspected to have contracted the disease from their brother. All three have succumbed to the infection. The total confirmed toll has now reached 12, out of which nine people have died in Vietnam and three in Thailand...
Two districts of Punjab -- Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar -- have been hit by a rash of ailments. The inhabitants are experiencing hair loss, joint swelling, certain types of deformities and other health problems. Their crop and cattle, too, are affected. At the root of the trouble is selenium, a non-metallic element of the sulphur group...
Sand mining continues unabated in Tamil Nadu there are no signs of any let-up in the quarrying of river sand in Tamil Nadu. This despite the Madras High Court staying the activity on all sites except the 79 owned by the state government
Politics hinders process to make the apex body scientifically sound
Revised urea policy rekindles debate on just allocation of cleaner fuels
But Indian communities may lose out due to lack of official preparedness
House committee submits report on Dal lake's revival
Bhutan unveils new plan
Island states feel isolated
Bangalore's lakes set to be leased out
Toll road triggers protests
Kyoto salvation via WTO?
By centre for forest scheme
Chicken laced with arsenic
Blood storage bags are unhealthy
No regulations for GM insects
Interview
Francis Wurtz, president of the Paris-based European United Left party, is certain that ecology is emerging as a political ideology on the left. Attending the World Parliamentar...
Factsheet
Global inequalities are also communicative in nature
Analysis
JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health
Feature
ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU
Is the West a victim of its own past?
Debate
I once saw a miracle. It was near a ragged wall of broken rocks near Udaipur. One side of the wall had patches of yellowing grass, not taller than an inch, with the occasional dry stalk. The other side, protected from goats by the wall, was a sea of green and yellow grass, up to a couple of feet tall. Here was something utterly simple that had the power to bring life back to these barren hillsides
Opinion
Uma Bharti is getting serious. The newly elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has unleashed a development agenda built around the 'cow family', a literal translation of the Hindi term gauvansh, which simply means cattle. Cow slaughter (cattle slaughter, actually) has become a cognisable and non-bailable offence. She doesn't stop there. She dreams of a state dotted with gaushalas (cattlesheds). She has entrusted her minister Ramakant Tiwari with the full responsibility of developing a cow-based economy in MP. Inspired by the Netherlands, she has promised government-financed gaushalas along riverbanks to promote tourism, of all things...
Will that crippling scourge called polio be wiped out from the face of the earth by the end of this year? The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes so. But all its ambitions -- and that of the six governments it is working in tandem with -- will go to nought if the last person the disease could afflict isn't immunised. Reach the last person, Mahatma Gandhi used to say. How apt this pithy lesson on governance is in this effort to eradicate a disease that, otherwise, can only bounce back...
Dear Saxena ji,
Thank you for inquiry.
West facing windows can be a big source of heat, first measure which you...
Why all these are not applicable to Tuticorin port or the one planned in AP or WB ?
What an eye opener! As an environmental engineer,disposal of sanitary napkins has always been a concern during waste...