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Living in threat

Book Launch>>MEMOIR • Pakistan

Ruby’s Benefactors

Computer Programming>>Crowd Funding • Finland

Signs of mafia

Code>> Cocaine Smuggling • Italy

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran

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Cyclone Phailin's progress

Scientists talk back

Communications>> Science Research • Canada

Local call

Mobile Network>> Indigenous People • Mexico

Uttarakhand's displaced

Babies as trophies

TV>> Talk Show • Pakistan

Value of a tweet

Twitter>> Reporting • Virtual world

Wire to prime minister

Telegrams>> Medicines • India

Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

Metal shield

Arctic’s whistle-blower

Online>> www.arctictruth.org

Stranger than fiction

Novel >> Climate Change ÔÇó The UK

Mocking an autocrat

Hacking>>Politics • North Korea

Death crawl

Carnivorous snails of Thailand face extinction due to mining

Gut reaction

Malarial parasite’s food chamber reveals secret of its survival

Green monster nailed

Phosphorus can kill deadly bacterium that hits citrus plants

Nature's invaluable services

>> What has Nature Done for Us, by Tony Juniper, Profile Books, Rs 917

Pause for polls

Television>> Elections • Kenya

Footprints of flying

Online>> www.greenaironline.com

Smoking nests

Birds in cities using cigarette butts to insect-proof nests?