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NEEDED: detox for killers

Black spots

Return of granite mining threatens Karnataka

Urban poor need microfinance for livelihoods

Mystery behind fragrance from moist soil

Mystery behind fragrance from moist soil

Chemicals blamed for skewed sex ratio

Wetland egret can be new bio-control agent

Green turtle diet unravalled

Pros and cons of using wastewater for irrigation

Folk wisdom on locust breeding challenged

Sweetener aspartame causes cancer

Polen theft by honeybees hits Sikkim's cardamom yield

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Models in mutilation

Modern industrial design, pandering to essentially Western consumer-led markets, has spelt doom for the environment. The author, therefore, …

Winding roads to welfare

Humans just do not live by bread alone. But to climb the steps leading to total welfare, somewhere that equilibrium between work and …

"Farmer's income is more important than foodgrain production"

Eminent agricultural scientist and chairperson, National Commission for Farmers (NCF), M S Swaminathan talks to Sourav Misra on agricultural …

The holy book and the sacred list

The iucn' s Red List for prioritising species for protection is beset by serious flaws

'Roughing it out in Lebanon was futile'

Selvakumar Sounthararani, a 36-year-old woman from the war-scarred northern town of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, worked in Beirut, Lebanon, as a …

Coastal zone management notification '07 Better of bitter fare?

report>> Coastal Zone Management Notification '07 Better of Bitter fare? by M Menon, S Rodrigues and A Sridhar Produced for the Post-…