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Apr 15-30, 2012
Cover Story
Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, many senior bureaucrats and politicians in power are hand-in-glove with local contractors to make huge gains from illegal sand mining. Even as the exchequer suffers, little attention is given to the long-lasting scars sand mining leaves on ecology. Communities fight on the river banks and in courts to keep sand reserves from getting exhausted.
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava travelled to Madhya Pradesh, Anupam Chakravartty to Punjab, M Suchitra to Andhra Pradesh and Ashwin Aghor to Karnataka to examine the murky business of sand mining
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Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur
Odisha gears up for more power generation but has no action plan for disposing of fly ash
Centre continues to allocate coal blocks despite calls for competitive bidding
Interview
Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the Bagmati is nothing less than a...
Patently Absurd
The compulsory licence granted to Natco may not be a trendsetter but it will shake up the pharmaceuticals market
Science & Technology
Scientists develop plastics that can repair cracks on their own with the aid of light
Brown rice of shorter size accumulates more arsenic
How common pesticides affect bee populations
Fig and peepal aid natural reforestation
US scientists develop database for adverse drug reactions
Nitrate pollution in California could affect 260,000 people
Kanav Kahol, an expert on biomedical informatics, quit his teaching job in the US and came back to India to create a technology that would help the poor. He works with the affordable health technology department of non-profit Public Health Foundation of India and has recently created a new device called Swasthya Slate (health tablet-cum-app). It contains several health monitoring functions and can be used to monitor health in rural areas. Kahol talks to Dinsa Sachan about his latest innovation
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Web Check
Urban areas do not have space for house sparrows and they are also home to a host of predators. The birds are declining in rural areas too. And the problems are similar. There aren't enough nesting sites or food sources for them. Special Report
Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera
Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?
Snares laid in inhabited areas in Goa have citizens and officials caught in a noose of concern
Feature
Politician-scientist duo turns an arid region in Maharashtra lush green
Crosscurrent
Species that need protection are rare, shy and difficult to spot
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