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Sep 1-15, 2010
Cover Story
Chhattisgarh is set to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron. The push is on to install 77 per cent of India's current thermal power capacity, 51 per cent of the country's present cement capacity and 31 million tonnes of sponge iron capacity, which is equal to India's current capacity. The price of this fast-track industrialisation will be forests, agricultural land and the state's 32 per cent tribal population. SUGANDH JUNEJA toured the districts to assess the shape of things to come and the struggles that are already afoot. Does the country have a method to assess the cumulative impact of this crowded industrialisation?
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News
Alumina refinery’s illegal expansion under scanner
Government downplays threat from drug-resistant bacteria
Suppliers let off the hook in the final draft
Private tourism to be banned
Demand rights over national park in Borivali
GoM gives in to public pressure
Farmland and lakes to be used for the Sriperumbudur project
Panel recommends restrictions on mobile phone towers
Development authority insists project on course
Interview
At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, told B...
Pramod Kumar researches a language spoken by only 273 people in the Andaman islands. A PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, he spoke to...
Patently Absurd
India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted
Blog/Right to Dissent
If India is a growing economic power why is it so eager to put the interests of foreign businesses first?
Science & Technology
A fungus could wipe out American bats
An obstinate frog tells the tale of Himalayan rise
Scientists devise genetically tweaked rats to study cancer
Indian scientists design a bike engine that runs on air
The first census of marine species
It is difficult to comprehend modern life sans nighttime light. But the amenity comes at a price. Bruno A S De Medeiros and Alessandro Barghini at University of Sao Paulo in Brazil recently found that light pollution encourages the spread of infectious diseases. The biologist duo share their finding, published in Environmental Health Perspectives on August 1, in an email interview with Salonie Chawla
Predator chemicals can prevent mosquitoes from breeding
Special Report
Saxena panel report on Niyamgiri puts states under watch for forest, tribal rights violations
Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind eye to environmental concerns and risking the 155-year-old canal
Leh cloudburst is unusual, say scientists. Such extreme events are rising. What’s wrong?
Fuming diesel gensets to power Commonwealth Games stadiums
Feature
An eccentric genius who thought big with electricity
Scientists are flocking to Umri village in Allahabad district to study the reason it has so many twins. But ALOK GUPTA unravels the twin troubles its residents face
Crosscurrent
Small initiatives to save energy can go a long way in curbing emissions
