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Patna's new home delivery: pollution under control certificates
Patna is the seventh-most polluted city in the world, according to a recent Greenpeace report
Bihar transport department moves in as car owners complain of few testing centres amid …
September 19, 2019
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Governance

Israel elections: Who women vote for and how it's shifting
Ayelet Shaked, leader of the right wing Yamina alliance. Photo: Abir Sultan/EPA
Will having a woman, who is also secular and leading a right-wing religious alliance for …
September 17, 2019
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Governance

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 19-24)
Photo: Getty Images
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high …
August 26, 2019
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Haryana's sex ratio success a result of behavioural change or fudged data?
Sex ratio in Haryana has improved to 925 women per 1,000 men from 853 a decade ago. Photo: Prudhvi Mitra
The state's achievement comes at a time the Census’ Sample Registration System survey …
August 23, 2019
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Agriculture
Landed Communities

Going backward

November 29, 2018
As the Maratha community in Maharashtra finally gets 16 per cent reservation in government …
Governance
The flame of forest rages on

The flame of forest rages on

January 11, 2016
A bureaucrat-turned-activist who saw governance through the eyes of the tribals
Net equality

Net equality

August 17, 2015
A campaign to protect Net neutrality has sparked a debate on how to keep the Internet open …

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