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UN urges stronger response to address El Niño impacts
More than US $2.4 billion are needed for current El Niño responses and currently there is a $1.5 billion gap in funding
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Why we cannot ignore the poor
One thing is clear—the solutions must work for the poor, for them to work for the rich
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Africa’s children need help coping with a myriad of stresses, not just HIV
The global health community has made significant progress over the past 15 years to understand how to keep HIV-positive children alive and …
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The poor and the environment: lessons from energy crisis
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Assam bank is changing lives, making entrepreneurs of illiterate women
The cooperative bank has been helping marginalised women save and become financially independent
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'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'
Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report
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Over 100 cities pledge to make food systems sustainable in urban areas
Urban centres will be key actors in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, including eradication of hunger by 2030:FAO chief
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Have some clothes to shed
If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth
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'Social protection: a safety net for agricultural households'
In the run up to World Food Day on October 16, a Food and Agriculture Organization report focuses on the role of social protection in …
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A year later, the government’s promises on mental health still unfulfilled
No update on Mental Health Care Bill, other promises
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Poor countries have remained poor, says World Bank
A new report confirms that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the poorest populations
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Sustainable Development Goals: A paradigm shift in United Nations' fund flow
A report cites the changing funding patterns of the UN and its reliance on corporate partners
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Reflection in a pond
As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …
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World Bank sets up commission on poverty
Commission to present its report by April 2016
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Imbalance of footprints
Resource-rich countries remain poor, and they spend most of their income on food. Developed countries conitnue to increase their appetite
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Breaching the threshold
How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?
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How to plant trees for development
There is no economic value seen in forests, but there is value seen in the development project for which forestland is required
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Act locally, benefit globally
This is a real life story of the world’s three wicked problems, one opportunity and a new way to confront global challenges
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World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report
The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets
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Emergency call
Nearly 140,000 people in India died in road accidents in 2013, more than the death toll from many communicable diseases. But the country does not …
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It’s about the poor
Poverty line figures hide people’s aspirations
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Flat in 20 days
Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …
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Last ditch attempt
UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections
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India’s twin environmental challenges
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Prices rise, not hunger
People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO
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Hope in jaywalkers
The dominant urban vision is deeply exclusionary
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Poor health to food insecurity
Not only low income levels, but also adults suffering from chronic diseases adversely impact a household’s food security
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Bill will push PDS reform
Development economist JEAN DREZE, known for his work on issues such as hunger, famine, social and human development in India, child health and …
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More bite, less to chew
The most controversial aspect of the food security law is the restructuring of the public distribution system to cover an unprecedented 67 per …
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‘Need balanced criteria to judge backwardness’
Following Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s campaign for special status for Bihar, a panel of six experts chosen by the Union Finance Ministry …
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Public Deprived System
The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system
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How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore
The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …
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Setback to health insurance
Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme
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The poorest shun MGNREGA
Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years
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Capturing the monsoons
It's a season that inspires and engages everyone, from the farmer to the policy maker. From the scientist to the travel writer. From the …
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New poverty estimate scrapped
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh orders for new methodology
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Ethics on trial
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…
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Profit from the poor
Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …
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Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …
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Kind to cash
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on …
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Inheritance of loss
Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor
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Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS
State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain
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Mining for people
New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people
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Lured, used and discarded
Fifteen people hospitalised after unethical drug trial in Hyderabad
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BPL's dividing line
Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line
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More than half of world’s poor out of safety net coverage, says World Bank
Poverty is urbanising at a rapid pace, it says
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Story from a divided land
The memoir celebrates Chhattisgarh but laments the lost opportunity for its inclusive and violence-free development
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Stepsons of the Ganga
A fascinating account of the men who ply the emblematic boats of Banaras and embody its very essence
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‘Short-lived climate pollutants more lethal than greenhouse gases’
Black carbon has claimed 1.15 million lives across the world
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Cities are good
Angel argues slowing down urbanisation will hurt the poor the most
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Better roads must for food security
Sound investment on infrastructure could curb hunger by 2030
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Africa fights hunger with football, Vietnam aims at ‘zero hunger’ by 2025
Millions of people in Asia and Africa are undernourished and malnourished
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US, epicentre of unequal wealth
As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to celebrate, thinks JOEL BERG, an expert on …
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‘Disasters like Ebola threaten Africa’s progress towards MDGs’
Report launched at the ninth African Economic Conference says the continent made headway in human development but its continuation is threatened …
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UNDP kicks off its innovation summit
The two-day conference will see how innovations can address development challenges in Asia and the Pacific
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UN calls for protection of rights of women, indigenous peoples
The 69th session of the UN General Assembly will see the participation of world leaders on crucial global issues
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UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries
Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015
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Poverty high in Ghana, but so is school enrollment
Households claim improvement in living conditions over last 10 years
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News Briefs
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Africa loses more money than it gets in aid
While annual global aid is less than $30 billion, the continent incurs loss of $58 billion every year
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A third of the world’s poor live in India, says UN
Millennium Development Goal report released by global agency urges for increased efforts to increase access to sanitation and reduce hunger and …
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MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation
Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria
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UPA announces poll sop for tribals
Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA
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New policy to revive agroforestry
The National Agroforestry Policy 2014 can substantially reduce poverty in rural India
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“Cooperative is not for profit but for benefit”
Arshad Ajmal, mentor and the first chairperson of Al-khair Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, is now working on replicating the model in different …
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What led to forest officer’s killing
In Andhra Pradesh, revenue department gives land to poor, forest department wants it back
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Science and Technology - Briefs
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Books in cyberspace
Online Library>> Education • Brazil
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Bihar in reverse gear
State plans to bring down its minimum wage rate to that under MGNREGA
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Women interrupted
Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline
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Not a bankable strategy
World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator
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From the blurbs
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Chhattisgarh tribals to get sterilisation facilities after 30 years
Planning Commission asks state to ensure no discrimination
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A worthy goal
Soccer>> Homeless • Mexico
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Illogical formula
Lopsided drug trial compensation plan marginalises the unemployed and homemakers
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Getting the bulletin right
EL Nino and the new challenges
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‘Forests can’t survive without communities’
Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …
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Grains of doubt
Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme
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The great divide
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New poverty estimate soon
But will it reflect true level of poverty in the country?
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Budget through the years post liberalisation
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Run up to Budget 2012-13
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Difficult to digest
After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?
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‘Rethink economics of poverty’
Want poor families in north India to immunise their children? Offer the parents a small bag of lentils as an incentive and vaccination rates make …
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Lobbying begins
Just before mining bill is tabled in Parliament, industry calls profit-sharing a burden. Government is unsure
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Letters
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Alternative care
Report>> Global health watch, an alternative world health report • by People’s Health Movement, Medact, Medico International and …
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Free from poverty line
Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line
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Who are the poor?
Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality
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Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included
Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court
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GDP ignores cost to the environment
Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?
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Who are the poor?
Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …
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Letters
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From the blurb
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Letters
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Science And Technology - Briefs
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From the blurbs
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India set to grow biofortified crop
Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012
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Letter
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Letters
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Letters
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Letters
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Enable the poor
Book>> Challenging the injustice of poverty • by Rehman Sobhan • sage • Rs 699
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Letters
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UID benefits
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Broadband for the poor
Poverty>> Broadband • UN
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From the blurbs
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Voice-over
Newspaper>> WorkerÔÇÖs rights ÔÇó China
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Food security act to make people weaker
The reconstituted National Advisory Council will bring the focus back on welfare policies, Magsaysay awardee and member of the council ARUNA ROY …
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Slum voices
BOOK>> TRICKSTER CITY, WRITINGS FROM THE UNDERBELLY OF A METROPOLIS • translated by Shveta Sarda • Penguin • Rs 499
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Jute claims
Delicacies from its leaves relieve arsenic poisoning
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Letters
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Algae with a taste for carbon dioxide
NTPC considering pilot project in Visakhapatnam
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From the blurbs
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End of poverty is near
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Hunger claims five lives
Government aid too late for family in Orissa’s tribal district
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Uncelebrated entrepreneurs
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During wind and rain
When the wind velocity is constant, expect rains and storms
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Menopaused 20-somethings
Hysterectomies on a high since the launch of insurance scheme for BPL families in Andhra Pradesh
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Soils are breathing faster
The list of potential carbon emitters keeps growing
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News 360°
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World Bank energizes South Africa
US $3.75 billion to fund power plants
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From the blurbs
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Drug unit to shut
It polluted three Raigad villages for 30 years
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Court reads clean air act to Tripura
State unveils CNG plan
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Not as wheatful as expected
Certified seeds turned out spurious: Punjab farmers
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Coastal flyway to flatten 16 villages
Rs 500 crore road will cater to cars that comprise one-fifth the traffic
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Back alley schools
Book>> The Beautiful Tree, A personal journey into how the poorest are educating themselves James Tooley Penguin Rs 499
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It began 500 years ago
To end poverty, you have to know how it began—Diaz
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Fresh BPL survey
Orissa to expand its list of poor
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Caracas to Africa
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Perhaps yes, minister
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BPL: a difficult line to draw
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Urban poor to get flats in multi-storeys
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Get a 3-6 years head start
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Inspired by Marx
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Caffeine hits energy drinks
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Political symptoms
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South Asia
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Unmasked
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Three cheers for the paper
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No work, no vote
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Corporal lab
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Mirror cracker
Novel>> White Tiger By Aravind Adiga Harper Collins, Delhi 2008
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Prescription done, how about the cure?
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Financing emissions from jets and cows
Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …
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No sex please, we're Indians
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According to reports
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Use their ways
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Witnessing a cycle of misery in Bihar's flood-prone villages
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Afghanistan seeks aid in the name of poppy
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Gang leader for a day, a rogue sociologist crosses the line
Book>> Gang Leader For A Day, A Rogue Sociologist Crosses The line by Sudhir Venkatesh, Allen Lane London 2008
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Bad food
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Tall claim, short supply
Chhattisgarh ration shops have no ration
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Extracts from 'Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country'
Extracts from Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty....
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Book review: 'A quick travel through the countryside'
Book>> Red Sun; Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty
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Paperless district
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Sunny days
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Biometric data to keep tap on beggars
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A classless enemy
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Economic growth brings in invasive species
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Zimbabwean unsettles its resettled farmers
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Containing a virus
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Mumbai has 2.6 million fake ration cards
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Subcontinental drift
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News Snippets
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Science against poverty
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Poor India speaks
book>> Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower, Tremors in India's Mining Fields edited by Rakesh Kalshian Panos South Asia New Delhi 2007
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Delhi's poor vulnerable to health risks due to air pollution
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Stories of success and failure
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Food aid comes a cropper
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Review of the film, Sicko
Film>>Sicko, Produced and directed by Michael Moore, 125 minutes, USA
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PDS fails in feeding India's poor
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Climate change will create billion refugees, says study
Climate change is likely to create at least a billion refugees by 2050 according to a recent report.
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Furore over Zimbabwe's selection as head of UN body
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Lung cancer scars people affected by dust after 9/11
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Down To Earth completes 15 years
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Gujarat announces Rs 13-crore scheme for state's poor
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'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'
Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …
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'Privatisation has increased rural neglect'
The northeast has been badly affected by ethnic strife. DILIP GOGOI of Cotton College, Guwahati, on its vulnerabilit
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Grim reality of India's poverty dip
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A look at world urban population
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Budget leak backward districts get short shrift
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India Poised A Times of India celebration
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Water strikes the poor, says report
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Cost of special papers stops priniting of passports in Zimbabwe
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African Great Lakes to protect and assist regionally displaced
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What is the Indian Social Forum all about?
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MP High Court orders removal of names from BPL list
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Former militant Bijoy Hrankhal on Tripura's tribal needs
Bijoy Kumar Hrankhal was the founder member and vice-president of the Tripura National Volunteer, the first militant group in Tripura. He laid …
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Military, militants clash in Nigeria
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States take the fizz out of cola
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4,500 year-old skeleton discovered in Mexico
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Pricing forests: Net present value assessed
Committee submits report on net present value
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Snippets
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100 per cent FDI in housing
Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?
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South Asia
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Sorry state
First stock-taking of science in India paints a gloomy
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Grapes sans charisma
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The two Indias
The poor have not gained from India's economic growth, shows the UN human development report
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In their own voices
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Our vanishing cousins
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For free flow
Dhaka mulls law for waterbodies and floodplains
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Disaster reigned in
Proper civic planning could have spared Mumbaikars
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Silicon stride
New device may lead to batteries lasting decades
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Lost childhood
Deprivation and disease biggest
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Freshwater up for grabs
The rich get more than they need, and much water is wasted
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Undercover activity
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Less monarchs
Give biologists butterflies in the stomach
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In Short
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Rice Mapped
Throws open opportunities for better varieties
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Smoking out death
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In short
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For those ensnared
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In Short
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The extremes
Why Punjab prospers while Bihar gets poorer
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The poverty dilemma
Can Asia reduce poverty by half by 2015?
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Money bags be damned
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Healthy idea
But a poor way to bell the malnutrition cat
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Failure isn't a keyword
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In line of fire
Legislators' prize scheme
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Fighting back
GM food supporters attack ICMR report
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Organic states
Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path
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Developing diversity
Isn't a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?
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Tax the rich
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Caught in a trap
World's poorest nations can't have the much needed investment for growth
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No passage to Cuba
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GM roundup
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NYT op-ed: Rift over green policy?
On January 12, 2004, the New York Times carried an op-ed article by former us Environment Protection Agency administrator Christie Todd Whitman. …
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South Asian Union: Dream reality?
A closer-knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation …
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Full-scale review of poverty
What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the …
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Double legal action
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Bytes
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Free for all?
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Poor amenities
Basic services can work against poverty but are usually elusive, shows the latest World Development Report
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In Court
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Forlorn in the USA
About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …
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First-time study: child poverty
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In Short
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Marking time
Long wait for GM labelling continues in Sri Lanka
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Troubling thaw
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Local flavour
In new conservation recipe
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Letters
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Misery compounded
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No clearance sale
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Making the wrong noises
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Website review: www.arkive.org
"It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era" -- claims the site. The comparison may not, in some respects, be completely unjustified. ARKive is a …
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The Northeast's power burden
The centrality of the Northeast to India's ambitious national electrification plan cannot be overstated, since the region will be required to …
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"These are the times of one standard"
S P VASIREDDI, Chairperson and Managing Director, Vimta Labs Ltd, Hyderabad was recently in Delhi. NIDHI JAMWAL caught up with the scientist
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Cleansing solution
Next phase of India's clean coal initiative in the pipeline
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Stalemate
Over food law enforcement
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Lost case?
Will more funds induce Uttar Pradesh to combat pollution?
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A bit of ajwain
Can cure ringworm infection
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Plust friction
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In court
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HP snubbed
For denotifying forestland
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Designer news
How media designs and packages water...
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Website review: http://www.inequality.org
The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …
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Book review: Seeds of Contention
The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …
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Beggars on a beach of gold
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The 1996 World Food Summit target
Of halving the world's undernourished by 2015 is ambitious. Here's why:
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Sharp acceleration in hydrogen fuel cell research
"Tonight I am proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles," …
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Toyota pays up
Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti-pollution controls on old, publicly-owned buses in the US even …
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"An epidemic of non-communication"
David Miller is an expert in psychosocial management of hiv/aids. He has worked in developing countries since 1986 and is currently the Country …
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Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?
A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …
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Cops most corrupt
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Positive step
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Exchange programme
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Rapped for inaction
SC takes governments to task over tardiness in executing food-based employment schemes following starvation deaths in Rajasthan
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Health class
Enemies of health and allies of poverty join hand to create global havoc, leaving different marks on different classes
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Rooting out biopiracy
Venezuelan project aims to protect indigenous plant database
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Damp squib
Attempts to disrupt the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank failed
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Keeping tab on Persistent pollutants
Meeting proposed to assess the impact of persistent toxic substances
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'Television had promised rain'
RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration
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Small monies, few hitches
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New world
Joel Kovel . Published by Zed Books . 2002 . Price: not stated
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New wave
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Chimp's aid
Chimps are not victimised by AIDS because a lethal sickness has made their immune system resistant to the disease
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Still in the bind
Least developed countries (LDCs) are caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aid. Stiff and biased trade barriers by industrialised countries helps …
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Scurrying for cover
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Famine in motion
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Lagoon blues
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The E-Connection
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Piecemeal proposals
The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)
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Half-hearted democracy
UNDP's Human Development Report 2002 offers a link between politics and development
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India approves Kyoto ratification
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Dumping disincentives
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Widespread disagreement may mar WSSD
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Puffed out
Exercising after exposure to air pollution can be fatal for heart patients
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Toxic spread
Arsenic contamination detected in Lucknow
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Clean-up act
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Controlled flow
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Serious setback
Fresh row breaks out in Bhopal gas tragedy
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Spilling the beans
Oil spills can cause more long-term environmental damage than previously thought of
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Gender bender
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN INDIA: CASES, MATERIALS AND STATUTES By Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz •Second edition • Published …
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Row over relief
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TURN DOWN VOLUME
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A forceful endorsement
Kyoto Protocol gets a boost as Japan and eu ratify pact
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The Menace Within
Project to review the impact of indoor air pollution
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The idea of a clean city
could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would …
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Searing spell
Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts
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Not quite the light side
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Unpalatable facts
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Eco-links
India's first Human Development Report needs to look beyond numbers at ecology-poverty linkages
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Hottest of them all
The first three months of the year 2002 were the warmest ever recorded
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Caught in the web
Of poverty, life in India has improved little over the past decade, reports the planning commission's National Human Development Report 2001
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Thailand
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China
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South Africa
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Costly garbage
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Ensuring drinking water
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No more diverse
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Human rights and poverty eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth
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Human rights and poverty eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth
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Adding fuel to the fire
Respiratory illnesses may increase with global warming
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Globalisation and Development Studies
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Holistic approach
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Right picture
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Brainstorming
Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children
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Curative resolve
A dose of political will, backed by communication skills, can help combat infectious diseases
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An uphill task
Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch
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Missouri dying
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UNITED NATIONS
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Messy state(s)
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Follow Up
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With its mouth wide open
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Under fire
The International Rice Research Institute accused of biopiracy
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CONTAMINATED WATER
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Killer highway
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Future power
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Dirty fuel
Even as China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by reducing coal use, US policy encourages it
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Look further for weather
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Habitat crunch
Marauding elephants face villagers' vendetta
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Core of a chromosome
The secret chromosome center, the root of many cancers, is sequenced
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JUSTIFIED REJECTION?
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THIEVES FREED
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Self-purification
The world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes, straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants
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Unabated use
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Letters
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BRAZIL
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Solving poverty
Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …
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Food for thought
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TAIWAN
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Unhealthy policy
A new policy fails to address key problems of healthcare
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Official contamination
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CAMBODIA
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The science of art
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Polluting fireworks
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ECUADOR
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The logjam continues
George W Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union for his stubborn stand on the Kyoto Protocol
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The hole truth of cigarettes
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Mouse mapped
The truth about the mouse comes at a price
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Withdrawal symptoms
Drug firms abandon their case against South Africa over the pricing of AIDS medicines
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What a mess
Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?
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Dreaded occurrence
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A heart condition
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KOEL KARO
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Forest talk
An international forum on forests promises to bring in real change
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Dirty and thirsty
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UNITED NATIONS
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Fixing the drought
To uplift the poor it is important to understand the root cause of poverty
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Will he beat around the bush?
He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully
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Cry the beloved country
The fight against AIDS in Africa hinges largely on drugs becoming more affordable in poor nations
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The right to develop
A UNDP report links democracy with a better human development scenario
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Stir over dam
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Old as the mountains
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Lava tracking
Scientists try to explain massive volcanic eruptions of the past
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The light show
A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth's poles to understand the northern lights
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The light show
A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth's poles to understand the northern lights
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No subsidy for LPG
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Weed menace
Careless dumping of genetically modified canola plants triggers an outcry in South Australia
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Cleaning diesel emissions
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Eco-friendly trains
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BORN FREE
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China may buy Mir
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COSTA RICA
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Big cats oblige Clinton
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Checking with the past
Studying old weather could help in predicting new oil deposits
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Genetically yours
There are many ways to 'get to the point'
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MOZAMBIQUE
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Heart matters
A new drug that improves the survival of diabetics with heart problems
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City with a new concept
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Fern assault
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CONSERVATION
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Waterlogging
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Birds stammer, too
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Hybrids of eucalyptus
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Developing issues
PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES: ESSAYS ON GRASSROOT DEVELOPMENT·UNNATI, Ahmedabad·133pp· Price Rs 125
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Planet watch
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Barren continent
After the destruction of Europe's conifers, it took millions of years for the regeneration of forests
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All about agreements
THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS, THEORY AND PRACTICE·Edited by DG Victor, K Raustiala and …
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The rich are enjoying themselves at the expense of poor people's health
Karen E Smoyer of the University of Alberta, Canada, has been working on the impact of poor environment on the weaker sections of society. …
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Beware of Policymakers
PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PATENTS: THE IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, TRADE AND RURAL SOCIETY·Crucible group&…
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One up
Monsanto wins a landmark victory in Britain
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MORE WATER
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Taking stock
More than 150 nations gather to assess the damage from mounting ecological and social catastrophes
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New labels on beef
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Garbage power
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Embracing disease
The Jarawas of Andaman Islands are dying from a number of diseases
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Thailand
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Ticketless travel
Electronic tickets are fast becoming popular in the us and Canada
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CURE FOR TB
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"We are not afraid to lay down more lives for our rights"
Chilika, Asia's largest brackish water lake in Orissa, is in the midst of a controversy that refuses to die. At stake is the livelihood of …
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Sleep and hypertension
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Dams: under scrutiny
Dams in the us are being dismantled to restore riverine ecosystems
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Victims of modernisation
Tribal communities of Andaman and Nicobar Islands face extinction
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Raising money
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Fusion reactor
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12 billion years...
...is the age of the universe. And calculations based on data from the Hubble space telescope have established the elusive Hubble constant
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Singapore
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CHINA
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Anna vindicated
The anti-corruption department raids the houses of a former Maharashtra minister, who put social activist Anna Hazare behind bars for accusing …
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TALIBAN SEEK HELP
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MONEYMAKERS
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Heading for showdown
Even as the US accuses the EU of rewriting prior agreements, the later agrees on a common approach to limiting flexible mechanisms for …
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Dam travails
A breach in the Bhakra-Nangal dam in Punjab inundates more than 1,215 hectares of agricultural land
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Small is deadly
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Fluorosis menace
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THAILAND
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Jaundice arrives early
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ORDER ON TAJ
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FOLLOW UP
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Heat and death
Summer is only just setting in. And already there are reports of deaths in Orissa due to a heat wave
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Big tobacco coughs up
A tobacco company will have to pay US $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer
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Memory plus
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Gorillas in the midst
In east Africa the latest war casualties are gorillas
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War and ecology
NATO strikes on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could lead to an ecological disaster, warn Serb officials
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Speed limit
Scientists tame the speed of light
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SC CRITICISES GOVT
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Virus check
The FBI finally arrests the person who started E-mail computer virus Melissa
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Wavy rides
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Cancer solutions
Stopping blood supply to tumours appears to be a potent way to tackle cancer
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A question of priorities
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Deep mystery
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Tall claims, small gains
Teak companies are all about broken promises
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ECUADOR
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Growing apart
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Crisis in Antarctica
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IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS
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Winners all
This year's Nobel laureates
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Grafting ziziphus
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NIGERIA
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Hope for Earth
We are producing less CFCs - the main agent for ozone depletion. That, say experts, is a good sign
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ET's phone on sale
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VENEZUELA
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Alaska melting
Global warming threatens the beautiful glacier
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Worm sutpnse
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Green rockets
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Tree help
Assisted conception of coniferous trees can be a boon for both the environment and the lumber industry
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Life after death
Technology allows doctors to retrieve sperms from a dead man and impregnate his widow
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THE PHILIPPINES
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Jump, they say
Why do some gene fragments jump around from one place to another? Russians believe they have the answer
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Movies in your head
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INDIA
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BIRDS SET FREE
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Cause of death: poverty
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In the line of fire
Unusual weather conditions have led to fire outbreaks in several parts of the world, the latest being Florida
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Odour of the day
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On track
The setting up of a task force may streamline and coordinate the various environment-related activities of the UN
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Notch in the mountains
HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY-ACTION PLAN·Edited by Uppeandra Dhar·Himvikas Publication No. 10, published for the G B Pant Institute of …
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Tales of evolution
Recently discovered prehistoric embryos are throwing previous theories into a tizzy
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Sinking prices
Oil prices in India are reaching for the sky even as international oil prices hit an all-time low
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In Focus
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Beyond progress
DEPRIVING THE UNDERPRIVILEGED FOR DEVELOPMENT·Balaji Pandey·Institute for Socio- Economic Development, Bhubaneshwar·Rs 650
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Childhood cancers
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CHINA
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JAPAN
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Mutated future?
Is gene therapy really safe? Though most say yes, no one is absolutely sure
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Rooster calls no more
The tasty meat of a breed of poultry unique to Jhabua is turning out to be the its greatest enemy in the fight for survival
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Cheers to that
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BRAZIL
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NEPAL
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NEPAL
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Mother Universe
How did the Universe "get going"? Here's a new, interesting theory
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UNITED NATIONS
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Silence of the birds
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PROJECTS FOR PAKISTAN
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New battlegrounds
FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL· Michael Renner·WW Norton and Company, New York and London·1996· Price US $11
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Summing up poverty
The latest Human Development Report highlights the need for people- and resource-friendly development
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Fewer 'green claims'
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IN FOCUS
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Grim kaleidoscope
EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT·P Sainath·Penguin Books India (P) Ltd·1997· Price Rs 295
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Double trouble
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Taxus treat
A rare tree whose extracts are used for an anti-cancer drug is being felled illegally
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Forces of change
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Divided union
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Tracking syphilis
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Sex, parasites and immunity
Sex lives of parasites may have an important role to play in the evolution of diseases
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Happy high flying
On board oxygen generation systems could help in flying at higher altitudes
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PROGRAMME POSTPONED
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Running away
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Private and public poverty
POVERTY: A GLOBAL REVIEW (HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL POVERTY RESEARCH) · Edited by Else Oyen, S M Miller and Syed Abdus Samad · …
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What's ailing?
A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot
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Mother and natureboth?
DISCUSSION PAPER: GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY INTERLINKS IN RURAL INDIA: REGIONAL VARIATIONS AND TEMPORAL SHIFTS, 1971-1991 Bina Agarwal . …
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Poverty perspective
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The Bank and the pauper
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Tall claims
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THE ADB
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At the feet of poverty
ARAVALLI PAHARIAN HARIALI KI ORE VHS Written and directed by K L Manhas 35 min
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PAYBACK TIME
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Bum deal at the summit
A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing: that was the Social Development battlefield at Copenhagen
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Vertigo at the summit
The forthcoming World Summit for Social Development has already polarised North-South social imperatives
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Laps of plenty
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One goal, two roads
Non-governmental organisations are taking the government's proposal for cooperation in poverty alleviation with a healthy pinch of salt
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Sustainable development is an oxymoron
WOLFGANG Sachs, born in 1946 in Munich, studied theology, sociology and history and taught at the University of Berlin for several years. At the …
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The economics of empowerment
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A haven for dumping
Outdated federal regulations make Indian reserves in Canada vulnerable to waste dumping from sly and better-off surrounding communities
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Royalties for folklore
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Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide
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The land rush
STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND THE FATE OF THE FORESTS Edited by Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann Publisher: The World Rainforest Movement, Malaysia, …
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World Bank optimistic
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Oxfam takes IMF, World Bank to task
British aid agency Oxfam has criticised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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From riches to rags
The wealthy people of Nauru face a future of poverty because most of their only natural resource, phosphates, has been exploited ruthlessly by …
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Towards a global anti-poverty convention
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The female face of environment
GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE Heleen van den Hombergh Publisher: International Books Price: Not stated
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SAARC STATES STALLING
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UNDP report stresses people's participation
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1993 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price: Rs 190
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War on poverty
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Aid for alleviation
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Riveting saga of a river that gives -- and takes
Goutam Ghose's Padma Nadir Majhi depicts how poor fisherfolk, already vulnerable to nature's whims, are exploited by fellow-humans.
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Chipko: Environmentalism of the poor
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Blending green concerns into market economy
GERMAN environment minister Klaus Topfer has come under fire for his tough green laws such as the one against packaging. Environmental ministries,…
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Overcoming poverty
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For a few dollars more
Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …
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Food benefits are not for the poor
DELIVERANCE FROM HUNGER -- THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN INDIA K R Venugopal Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 225
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The saga of the big brother in a little village
FROM POVERTY TO PLENTY: THE STORY OF RALEGAN SIDDHI Ganesh and Vasudha Pangare Publisher: INTACH, New Delhi Price: Rs 85
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Alternative approaches to poverty alleviation
WOMEN, POVERTY AND RESOURCES PONNA WIGNARAJA Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 85
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IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster
A short-term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation
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Driving home a point without any solutions
Our Country, The Planet -- Forging a Partnership For Survival Shridath Ramphal Publisher: Island Press, Washington D.C. Price: US $15
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Tears, no funds, for the poor
The chapter on poverty was adopted, but the US voiced its objections loud and clear
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Children: victims of war and poverty
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How to love farmers-the Modi way
Like its other policies, the BJP government's Land Acquisition Ordinance favours industry at the cost of farmers
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Of mountains & ozone holes
When poets wrote for Down To Earth
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Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions
In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …
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Cop-out
Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …
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In defence of capitalism
Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense
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Brazilian lessons for Modi
Dilma Rousseff's re-election as president is a lesson on facing development challenges in an unequal economy
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Scheme against jobs
Government is bent upon shrinking jobs for the poor by fundamentally changing the rural employment guarantee scheme against the advice of its …
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Delhi's walking medicine bank
Omkar Nath Sharma has made it his vocation to collect unused medicines and distribute them to the poor
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Time to redraw the global poverty line
It must reflect new realities of food inflation, climate change impacts
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Tuberculosis India-2014
Tuberculosis is no longer a disease afflicting only the poor. Its thrives on deprived/distorted lifestyle and on the offshoots of the so-called …
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Why people want to be poor
Crisis in Chhattisgarh over implementation of food security law has crucial lessons for India's public distribution system
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Brief history of a line
The official definition of poverty keeps changing. A look at how the concept evolved Illustrations: Sorit
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Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow
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Carting away sand
Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat
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Heading towards a cliff
As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor
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New leader, old challenge
India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication
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Crushed and torn
Closed tea gardens of West Bengal are enclaves of death and destitution. Speculative ownership and a callous government have prolonged the crisis,…
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Environment: A People's Perspective
Justice is a central component of the conceptual transition from human development to sustainable human development and a similar concern for …
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Islamic banking with a twist
A cooperative in Bihar offers interest-free loans, but only to its poor members
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The climate and trade tango
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Job half done
25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent
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Price of food inflation
In near future the impact of high food price will show in terms of more malnourished
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Assessing poverty-deforestation links: evidence from Swat, Pakistan
This blog is based on a paper that contributed to the debate on the links between poverty and forestry degradation; the view that due to poverty …
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India's gold follies and food security
Why are lawmakers so ready to forego huge tax revenues on gold but baulk at spending on food for the poor?
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The poverty quibble
Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …
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G8 and tragedy of Africa
Rich nations are forcing African states to change laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture in a replay of colonial adventurism
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Premature scheme
Gujarat's plan to increase institutional deliveries among expecting mothers has fallen flat
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Victim of its success
MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely
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Small fish, big net
In the face of a rising demand for fish and a stagnating aquaculture growth, government wakes up to the potential of small fishery
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Night under a winter sky
As night falls in Delhi and mercury dips, Meeta Ahlawat ventures out with her camera to make a warm conversation with the homeless in the city. …
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The forgotten class
Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor
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First comes chick
Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress
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The beauty & beast of malnutrition
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Universal health scare
The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …
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A promising pathway
Rio+20, green economy and India
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Displaced for nothing
First Asiatic lion, then cheetah: officials struggle to decide which animal to introduce, and when, in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary. But they evict …
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Future compromised
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …
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Green rider for GDP
World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth
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Hunger games – it’s the real India show
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Paying farmers for ecological services
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Born at 44
Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart
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New business for new renewables
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The inconvenient truth
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Rise of livestock
Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain
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Future shock
As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…
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Dharavi's real estate threat
The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai's sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not …
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Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable
A government committee wants regime change to facilitate private investment in mining. What it is oblivious to is the need for more regulation to …
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Sponge iron industries are killing fields
The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa …
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SEZ, how special?
Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has …
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Impotent plan?
In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). The latest avatar of state-financed employment …
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Dial Rx for telemedicine
Rural patients consult city doctors via satellite link
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Disconnect
Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …
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INEVITABLE TRAGEDY
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …
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Out of breath
After visiting hospitals and slums VIBHA VARSHNEY has found that asthma makes poor children suffer far more than their rich counterparts. And a …
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In search of the missing
In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …
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Small in size, big problem
Nanoparticles, as tiny as a billionth of a metre, pose a challenge to scientists and regulatory authorities alike. It may also be a huge health …
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Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader
Headloaders - collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of …
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WSSD: dialogue of the deaf
The needs of many were once again compromised to accommodate the demands of a powerful few. Given the alarming tilt towards self-interest and …
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CNG Verdict: A Legal Debate
No matter how one looks at the Supreme Court's April 5 ruling on air pollution in Delhi, it is undoubtedly a milestone in Indian judicial history.…
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Agony of the waiting
There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits.…
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Beyond The Billion
If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …
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Postponed
Issues concerning the earth's future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at the just concluded Earth Summit II SUPRIYA AKERKAR …
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Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty
The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …
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Importing Disaster
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From protests to where in 2012?
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Outrage of the 99%
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20 years to…where?
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True measure of growth
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No two droughts are alike
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Picture imperfect
Fertile and picturesque, that is what Bellary was before companies started indiscriminate mining for iron ore
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‘Profit share is vital for poor states’
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Land is more than just that
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Focus not on graft
Corruption is not just the kind that has found recent media attention
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POSCO: take land but give life
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Zero hour
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Movement for worse
The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives
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Rethink growth with forest capital
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Prime Minister’s Logic
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A complement, not a substitute
Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place
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Think differently, Mr Finance Minister
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Kind to Cash
A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.
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Latin lessons
Experiments in cash transfer in Latin America
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Is India ready?
Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer
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Cash swings votes
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Five-point blueprint
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Bring farmers to farms
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How to approach environmentalism
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Act before vicious cycle sets in
Without a grazing policy the goat economy can go bust
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The goat debate
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Rise And Rise Of MFIs
Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth
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How the noose tightens
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High-risk trade
MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats
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Role models
Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites
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How climate ready are we?
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Fix what is broken
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Fix what is broken
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A question of political will
Two innovative states prove PDS can be made efficient
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It’s my land, not yours
How it is acquired
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What bleeds Bellary
How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district
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See the light
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The battle for knowledge
What are patents? Why have they become politically contentious and a major source of friction between rich nations and the developing world?
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Local solutions: coconuts, twigs
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Rags to pads
Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India
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Slums as self-confrontation
The attempt to free cities of slums will only make them invisible
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A smile for the camera
At the capitals of three mining hotbeds, AVINASH KUMAR finds a battle to capture public imagination
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Reading between poverty lines
Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?
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Poor count
Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective
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Time a resource curse got lifted
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Diminishing returns
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Jairam Ramesh wants Centre and State to coordinate on a plan against climate change
Jairam Ramesh, India’s Union Minister of Forest and Environment briefs South Asian journalists on India’s stand on climate …
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Bail us out: consume
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Denial of the rural
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Our quality of mercy
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Learn to walk lightly
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Frugality is not poverty lessons in energy security
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Duplicity
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Fishworkers' campaign draws attention to the sale of marine waters
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Travails of a waterscape
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Chirala saree weavers losing out to computer-aided designs
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Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe
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Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies
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Why waste a chance?
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A rose or a ladder?
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In credible India
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Global warming can't be fixed without egalitarian ethic
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New report on skewed urbanisation in India
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Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal
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Efficiency versus democracy
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India's poorest people live in the richest areas Comments from the dialogue on mining organised by CSE
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Science congress is a jamboree
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2006: The waterloo year
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Anaemia rampant in women in Bageshwar
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The need for the public sector
For services the marginalised need
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Making space for emissions
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Anti-Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people
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Another India is (not) ours
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Urban growth model needs reality check
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Uttaranchal tea estates bane for farmers
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Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates
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No free lunches in India
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Amongst footloose workers
Reminiscences from a visit to Alang about 10 years back
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Alliance board
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After 26/7
Mumbai needs to grapple with real questions
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Soft 'target'
PDS' poor politic
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Like a tonne of bricks
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Surviving time
Tamarind paste, mud burial or klih : these preserved manuscripts
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Cancer train
Brave front: Bimla hugs her son goodbye before leaving for Bikaner for her second round of radiotherapy
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Sulia takes charge
Participatory management brings forests back
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The Sun vs the Moon
Dam authorities don't think of those living downstream
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Deep purple health
Shehtut fruit juice is a good blood purifier
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Thread less in 2005
Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market
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Seeds of starvation
Intensive agriculture is destroying China's soil
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Foreign influence
Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad
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65 million draught animals
What runs the small farming economy?
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Time to redress
The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?
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A government in denial
Cannot wish ecological poverty away
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Out on their own
Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers
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Village Punukula's different
Managing yields without pesticides
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Mourn
But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge
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A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers
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Limited democracy
Panchayati raj institutions have not given much justice to Dalits
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Celebrating WSF 2004
When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…
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Another dismissal is possible
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The really challenged
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Unchecked
Industry flouts weak regulations at will
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SC's endorsement
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Effective water management by a Kenyan farmer
In Kenya, where sixty per cent of all agriculturists are small farmers with less than 5 hectares (ha) of land, Peter Saku is an interesting case. …
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Development is not a road
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Ladakh's politics of consensus
A lesson, in election times?
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Stupid growth
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Boxwallah
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How do we view the Bawaria community?
Are the Bawarias of Rajasthan hunters, nomads or a tribe of criminals?
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WTO vs MEAs
A developing country perspective
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In search of the missing
In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …
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Flaying the environment
Tanneries: ill-managed, technologically challenged
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Burdensome load
Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal
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Up in smoke
National programme on improved chulhas put on ice
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Devolution has to happen. It will
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She walks in oblivion
Society itself doesn't care to know about headloading
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Beyond the odds
Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their 'environmental awareness' campaign
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Food as carrot
In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?
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Big brother
WSSD clearly illustrated the hatred of the US' bullying tactics
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Shallow pledges
The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions
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Turncoat 'thieves'
Former teak smugglers become official forest guards
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Battle of the brackets
The Plan of Implementation is a list of vague expressions
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World's biggest trade fair
The US used partnerships to counter multilateralism
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'Let's put our cards on the table'
Veteran UN negotiator and head of the UNEP during the Rio summit, Mostafa Tolba, reasons why developing countries always suffer at the hands of …
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Experiments with truth
Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status
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Open letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee
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A sticky label
US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe
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ADDICTED!
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Identity crisis
Rightwing parties provide an illusion of certainty: the one thing that many Europeans reeling under new pressures are hungrily groping for
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Wishful thinking
The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …
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Nepal's poor carry it off
As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …
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Law of no returns
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Engine trouble
The Indian auto industry has got stuck with obsolete engines. It needs a jump-start
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WTO: a mock battle
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Complex consequences
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Productivity peril
Crop yields will decrease substantially posing danger to food security
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Earth matters
Many contentious issues come to the fore as preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development get underway
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Chilka is shrinking
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Spreading message
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Environmental injustice
The poorest people in urban India live in foul environs. Research from across the world shows that the poor stand greater risks of several cancers.…
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Killer with a BIAS
There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor
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Today's Plague
Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty
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Battered Lungs
Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty
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Spare change
Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems
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Labour pangs?
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Umbilical Discord
An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …
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Johkasou today
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Descent of man
The troubling aspect is that religious fundamentalism encourages the rejection of modern scientific thinking
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Inclement climate
Climate change discussions should focus on issues that are of importance to the South
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A Public Effort
Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be …
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Clean Delhi
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Nurture nature
To achieve economic growth and poverty alleviation, it is imperative to constantly replenish environmental resources
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A message for planners
Reorganise public transport. Work out a national air quality action plan
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Labour vs pollution
Ever since the Supreme Court (sc) ordered closure/relocation of polluting units in Delhi, which subsequently left nearly 50,000 people jobless,…
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Labour vs pollution
Ever since the Supreme Court (sc) ordered closure/relocation of polluting units in Delhi, which subsequently left nearly 50,000 people jobless,…
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DTC: OUT OF GAS?
With the deadline for converting its entire bus fleet to compressed natural gas drawing near, the Delhi Transport Corporation looks for excuses …
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Disasters in the making?
Groundwater contamination in India is verging on disastrous proportions, especially with regard to mercury
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Survival at stake
Will corals that have survived Nature's occasional acts of destruction through the centuries survive 50 years of human pressure?
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Charting a new course
A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand
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Charting a new course
A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand
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Scent of good business
Herbs spell commercial success for villages in Jowahar Valley
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Beware flurosis is zeroing in on you
Water harvesting and conservation methods can turn the tide against the disease
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The toll rises
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Early signals
Scientists became aware of acid rain more than a century ago
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Kala-azar in Gujarat
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Sensitive economics
Anil Agarwal's article, "The poverty of Amartya Sen", publised in the December 15, 1999 issue of Down To Earth , has drawn a number of …
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Trouble in Tripura
Restrictions on jhum cultivation, large-scale immigration and timber smuggling have made Tripura an environmentally poor state
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Treasures in grass
India has a huge variety of grasses. But the wealth is being destroyed
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The poverty of Amartya Sen
Even the "sensitive" Sen has failed to understand -ecological poverty"
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A Tale of Two Rivers
Extraordinary court rulings on two rivers in south India set the stage for a showdown between environmental agencies and the industry
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Mind over matter
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Deep Impact
In spite of ample evidence highlighting the adverse effects of pesticides on wildlife, it continues to be used indiscriminately in India. Worse, …
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DYING FOR PROGRESS
The growth of cities and industries has severely affected the environment. The spread of disease has increased with the spread of civilisation
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PROXY ATTACK FROM FAR LEFT
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Fuel for food
While energy consumption surveys have shown a very high level of firewood consumption, various forest departments have shown very low levels of …
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Is the Tehri dam safe?
A crack has appeared on the mountainface forming part of the Tehri dam reservoir. Will such cracks effect the dam project in case of seismic …
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An abduction foretold
Threatened by avard-ne's rising popularity among the people in Majuli, ulfa saw itself losing credibility rapidly. Tried and tested tactics …
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Our country, our mess
How's India doing in providing basic social services?
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United chaos
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Words worth
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Scapegoat: Third World
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On shaky ground
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Welcome opposition
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Full and final settlement?
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B: High drama
The forest convention was the most controversial issue at the Summit. However, the G-77, a strident opposer, failed to act as a united force
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C: Green planet
Will the world move towards a more fair and environmentally just future?
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Cupfuls of misery
Nothing more than a vote-catcher, Andhra Pradesh's cheap rice scheme has resulted in an ecological disaster in its drought-prone areas
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The green dream
Environmental problems in Pakistan have grabbed media headlines, but never the serious attention of its leaders. The country's brief rendezvous …
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No charity at home
Is the individual's attempt at environmental awareness limited mostly to sermonising about big issues?
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Save the sea
...by encouraging local participation of fisherfolk to arrest overfishing and damage to the eco-system
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Evangelistic edicts
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Bread, values and politics
The forthcoming World Food Summit must ensure that the umbrella of food security also extends to encompass the Southern nations' poor
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Manna from the sky
You can now 'telecommute' for sustainable use of resources and take an 'edutainment' break! overseeing more than what an overseas aid by a …
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Cycle of change
A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune
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Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …
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Global democracy tilts at the axis
Are the "forces of freedom" in the West muscular enough to deepen democracy at the global level?
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Playing dice with development
Like all such meetings before, the UN World Summit in Copenhagen had to address the needs of the commoner, the bedrock of all nations
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Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
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Litany of disillusionment
Ravaged by ethnic strife, environmental disaster and crushing poverty, Ethiopians anticipate an uncertain future.
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Bringing better health to the Indian woman
Efforts are on to tackle the abysmal state of female health in India, especially among the poorer sections
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Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
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A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY
The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …
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Delhi's two faces: One rich, the other poor
The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.
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Past lessons, future strategies
Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a …
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