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Education
Beyond its curricula
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2004
A clean act
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2004
Samanwaya Pavantaka Sanghorn Kerala Hygiene
Edusat will educate
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2004
ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2004 India successfully launched Edusat, so becoming the first country in the world with a satellite exclusively reserved for educational purposes. The first operational flight of the 2000-kg class GSVL rocket -- it will eventually put the indigenously-built satellite in its geo-stationary orbit -- is certainly noteworthy.
The real bad news
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2004
"The Census of India is a veritable goldmine of data, but one can get easily lost and not find even gold dust." -- Ashish Bose, demographer
Mastering wildlife
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2004
Fourteen students sit clustered together in a room in Bangalore engrossed in animated conversation. They come from streams as diverse as history, biology and zoology, and chemical engineering. But now they are pursuing a common interest: wildlife. Their discussion is peppered with wildlife anecdotes, info-bites and interesting details about the tiger (someone tries to remember the number of tigers the erstwhile kings and princes shot down; umm... did wildlife historian Mahesh Rangarajan write about it?).
Given up
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2004
Shankar Sharma, vice-chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal, recently admitted that the country would be unable to achieve the Millennium Development Goals if the Maoist activity was not curbed immediately. This is the first such statement by a senior government official. According to government estimates, nearly two-thirds of Nepal is under Maoist control. Many government programmes have been withdrawn as government officials no longer travel to these areas.
Lies against lies
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2004
Posters by a Non Smoking Generation Sweden
Smoking stunts penis growth, cigarette filters contain mouse excrement and girls start smoking because they're stupid. Residents of Stockholm, Sweden, found their city plastered with posters making these claims on July 19. The posters are of course utter lies, but the Swedish organisation which pasted them isn't feeling guilty or ashamed.
Schooled in self-rule
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2004
Safe sex show
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2004
Sex Lottery Health UK
Scratch cards showing what lies beneath a man's underwear may seem perverse and a fillip to people's pornographic instincts, but the uk government is using precisely this kink to promote safe sex.
Running the show
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2004
Its infertile land, lack of irrigation facilities and feudal social order contribute to make Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh one of India's most backward regions. But over the past eight years, things have started looking up in Jalaun and Mahoba districts of the area. Irrigation facilities have improved, food insecurity is on its way out and more students attend schools with attendance being more gender-balanced.
