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Organic Universe
@Lathajishnu Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
It is a universe of its own—an expanding universe that has its own producers and consumers, its entrepreneurs, its markets, its passionate aficionados of scientists and evangelists. It is a universe that is governed by a different set of regulations and plays strictly by the rules, for the most part.
Letters - July 31, 2012
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
Backdoor trade
The write-up, “Death on mounds of a bumper crop” (July 1-15, 2012), is a realistic analysis of farmers’ woes in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. I have quit my corporate life to start farming. When I reached Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh in May, I saw many people making temporary shelters on their tractors or heaps of wheat and waiting outside procurement centres.
100 panchayat members resign in tribal Korchi tehsil
Issue Date: Jul 12, 2012
Protesting victimisation of innocent citizens on trumped up of being Naxalites, as many as 100 gram panchayat members have submitted their resignations in Korchi tehsil of Maharashtra. They include 24 sarpanchs and Police patils of several villages.
The move comes as a severe blow to the Gadchiroli district administration; 106 representatives of various elected bodies in different parts of the district had resigned earlier for the same reasons.
24 die of jaundice in Maharashtra's textile city
Issue Date: Jun 22, 2012
Case of profiteering from coal block comes to light
Issue Date: Jun 22, 2012
‘Lanco public hearing rigged’
Issue Date: Jun 21, 2012
The fresh public hearing for Lanco Infratech Limited’s 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Mandwa village of Maharashtra’s Wardha district was marked by utter chaos.
Flame that cools
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
For a poet, it is all colour and no fragrance, and for the common man, it is a mere flower. Palash, or the Flame of the Forest, which is abundantly available in central parts of the country, has long been considered virtually useless. Of course, the flower once came handy in making dyes for Holi but the profusion of chemical colours in the market put to an end to its use.
Light on India’s fourteenth meteor shower
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
What are meteors and what insights can they give?
Interviewee:
Binod Kumar
