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South Asia
India’s Child Development Index ranking drops
Issue Date: Jul 25, 2012
While the world has made significant progress in child health, education and nutrition in the past decade, India has fared poorly among middle-income countries. It has been given a ranking of 112 in the Child Development Index (CDI) report released by the non-profit Save the Children. This is much lower than the ranking of 103 in 2004.
‘Forests can’t survive without communities’
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2012
Why are you opposed to the proposed amendments to the Forest Act?
Interviewee:
Apsara Chapagain
Letters - June 30, 2012
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
GM ignorance At its best
River restoration is not just an ecological act
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2012
The Nepal government has set up a high level commission to restore the flow of the Bagmati. Will it bear fruit?
Interviewee:
Anne Rademacher
Making sense of climate debate
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2012
Ever since climate change and its probable effects on earth became common knowledge, much has been written about the topic. The world has been riveted by various climate change negotiations that have taken place and at times frustrated at their slow pace.
@sugandh84 Concrete invasion
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2012
Sri Lanka’s largest city was once dotted with freshwater marshes. The picturesque beauty of the wetland areas, say elders, was breathtaking. Not any more. The marshes have been filled to construct buildings. The remaining ones are highly polluted and taken over with invasive plant species.
Aryan invasion debunked
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2012
IT WAS German linguist Max Muller who in the 19th century proposed that 3,000-4,000 years ago an Indo-European (the Aryans) tribe invaded the subcontinent and brought along with it the caste system. The Aryans purportedly displaced the indigenous Dravidians, pushing them down South.
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2012
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Forests for people
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2011
There was some disappointment when Bhutan did not win the prestigious Future Policy Award for the world’s most innovative and influential forest policies this year. The nomination had a lot going for it—a Constitutional commitment to maintain at least 60 per cent of its land under forest cover for all time; the fact that it has set aside the largest proportion of its forestland under protected area of any country in Asia; and its community forest management (CFM) scheme that hands over large chunks of forests to rural communities to eradicate poverty.
