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- Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
- Poison in disguise 1
- Chaos in the iron age 2
- It’s a demographic disaster
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- Mirage of a river 1
- Activist lands in jail for protesting lack of health facilities in tribal district five years ago
- Tulsi Fights Fluorosis 2
- Auroville’s alternative galaxy
- 18 tribal villages in Maharashtra get tendu rights, finally
- Environment ministry wants to restore night traffic through Bandipur tiger reserve 52
- A green facade 44
- Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell 38
- Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency 33
- What’s good insulation? 30
- How vulnerable are India's nuclear power plants to disaster 28
- Grand distraction called river interlinking 28
- Eat at your own risk 27
- Green energy takes toll on green cover 26
- Temporary solution, permanent jam 25
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Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
>> Waiau in New Zea-land was forced to cancel one of the annual highlights on its social calendar: a dead rabbit-
throwing contest. 400 people live in this rural town in South Island. The event was off after New Zealands chapter on the international non-profit Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got wind of it.
>> Journalists in Uganda are demanding a law to protect them from being compelled to reveal their sources of information. Under the law Uganda scribes have to reveal their sources if the state calls for it.
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