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Jun 1-15, 2010

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Should India import and reprocess the world’s growing mountains of junk and toxic garbage? Should this become our business opportunity, capitalizing on the fact that rich countries need cheaper and more efficient ways of dealing with their waste—everything from electronic to medical?

News

Monitor seed prices, not just quality, say farmer groups
 

Should states or private seed companies  regulate price of Bt cotton seed?
 

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site
 

Public hearing for 9,900 MW Jaitapur power project held under protest
 

Automobile manufacturers unprepared

 

Chemicals in food may trigger attention deficit hyperactivity 
 

45 per cent Indian cities are in the red
 

Pilot project for prepaid power meters begins September
 

Atomic energy department wanted to drill inside national park
 

79 villages to stay
 

Environmentalists endorse it; traders oppose
 

Erosion may be speeding shift

Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity

 

They grow fast and their foliage blocks sunlight to weeds, farmers in Maharashtra have found
 

Hysterectomies on a high since the launch of insurance scheme for BPL families in Andhra Pradesh
 

Plans on to track pollution during the Commonwealth Games. What about cleaning the air?
 

Science & Technology

Evidence finally links phytoplasmas to root wilt disease in coconut trees

Changes in nature of Earth’s orbit tend to drive glacial cycles
 

Soft drinks have added phosphates which accelerate ageing
 

Omega-3 fatty acids are good analgesics
 

Daniele Fanelli, researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, probes the problem of quantity versus quality in scientific research. Sugandh Juneja had a few questions:
 

Growth rings allow for future prediction of drought
 

Water can be made from air, but it has its cost 
 

Feature

IIM alumnus’ mantra for vegetable retailing—involve vendors, families
 

A constable who gets corrupt officials behind bars

 

Leader

When the United Progressive Alliance (upa) triumphed at the hustings exactly a year ago, both its supporters and detractors agreed the victory vindicated the government’s social welfare schemes. The upa, in its first avatar, brought a new lease of life in many areas of the social welfare sector. It discarded moribund state-centred approaches, involved local communities and tried to draw in the private sector.

Crosscurrent

Resisting biometric data

 

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private

Review

In the 1980s, when civil war was at its peak in Cambodia there were about 40 international non-profits dealing with Camb-odian refugees on the Thai border.

Varieties of Activist Experience, Civil Society in South Asia, edited by David N Gellner, Sage, Rs 750

The subtitle of heavyweight economist Paul Collier’s book harkens to a very old question. Ever since the industrial revolution, savants, activists and lay people have split hair trying to reconcile prosperity with nature.

America’s war against Vietnam ended in 1975. Scars of the 13-year war remain even today.

Letters

Suspend cancer vaccine licences

Women and child rights groups as well as health networks are deeply concerned with the manner in which the two vaccines for cervical cancer— Gardasil and Cervarix—have been approved for marketing in India (see ‘Half a cervical cancer vaccine’, May 1-15).

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