In court

Suit yourself for safety

A new safety suit can sound alarm bells the moment it is damaged and make working in hazardous environments safer

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No one is alien

Women and capitalism

LABBOUR AND GENDER: SURVIVAL IN MODERN INDIA U Kalpagam Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 285(hb)/Rs 175(pb)

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Losing proposition

Bamboo musings

Although termed "forest weed" or "the poor man's timber" bamboo's potential may satisfy modernity's growing needs

Healthy ruling

On the job

Literacy levels

Shelf life

The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon,Oxford University Press, USA, $28

Apple makes them cry

Pledge>> Computers • China

Gearing up AIDS awareness

Bad blood

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

Blue-collar job declining worldwide

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

The bitter half

Migrant spectre

Shearers poisoned

Steelborn

Thousands suffer in India's ship-breaking yards while an unconcerned government invites more ships for scrapping

Boost for weavers

Change in immigration rules flayed

A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire

Modernising energy

Dead beat