A very fishy business
In some sections of India's fish processing industry, women workers are an exploited lot.
Business India (Mumbai)
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More than a cure
Rheumatoid arthritis is increasingly being recognised as a crippling disease which affects nearly one crore
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A lover of wildlife
Qasim Wani and Dachigam National Park are synonymous to wildlife lovers. The sanctuary in Kashmir is the last refuge of the Hangul deer. Wani, the retired forest guard, patrolled the National Park
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Clean Ganges cyber style
The Internet in its second phase seems to be changing its character. More and more sites are coming up espousing 'causes', be they social or corporate. "As the living symbol of India, the river Ganga
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A long way from Khadi
India, the world's largest grower of cotton, has opened its doors to genetically modified (GM) varieties, side-stepping the four-year rearguard battle by academics and farmers' groups who fear this
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In the eye of the tiger
Bureaucratic hurdles leave a Sunderbans wildlife project lagging behind the
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Where health is wealth
Data on the incidence of occupational diseases in India is scarce, but according to one estimate based on the Global Burden of Occupational Disease model developed by the World Health Organisation
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Power to the poor
A world-bank-funded project in Andhra Pradesh pioneers livelihood-enabling interventions for the rural poor. Fifteen thousand barefoot professionals have to be trained - barefoot veterinarians,
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Better banking
Fifteen million Indians are blind; 20 per cent because of corneal afflictions, which can usually be cured by transplanting a healthy cornea. Over 25,000 new cases of corneal blindness occur every
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Weeded out
For a long time the wheat fields of northern India have been infected by Phalaris minor, commonly known as gulli-danda or mandoosi, wild oat and broad leaf weeds, which lowered wheat yields by 30 to