Butterfly wings to the aid of glaucoma patients
INSPIRED by tiny structures on transparent butterfly wings, scientists have developed a light-manipulating surface for more effective and longer-lasting eye implants for glaucoma patients. Researchers
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Silicosis deaths in Pondicherry
Silicosis strikes glass factory workers, most of them women, in Pondicherry. Seven people are dead and more may be dying. But the government and the factory management tout technicalities in the face
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Transforming agriculture
The Amarinder Singh government has drawn up an ambitious road map to change the face of agriculture in the Punjab state, even as the farm sector seeks to come to terms with the changing realities in
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To end kidney commerce
Tamil Nadu decides to streamline the implementation of the transplantation of the Human Organs Act, 1994, but the proposed measures may be
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From bad to worse in Rajasthan
It could well turn out to be a drought crisis that is the worst in a century for this desert state. The Rajasthan state government is trying to do its bit, but it would appear that in the matter of
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The SARS epidemic
Even as the SARS virus arrives in India, with the first case being reported from Goa, laboratories under the WHO continue to explore ways to counter the rapidly spreading
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A reluctant battle against polio
Uttar Pradesh accounts for 64 per cent of the polio cases reported worldwide, but its Chief Minister, Mayawati is honoured with the Rotary International award for her "outstanding personal
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Elusive relief in Andhra Pradesh
While the groundwater level is falling fast, farmers and landless agricultural workers are left to fend for themselves in a nightmare year on the drought front. The failure of the state and its
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Withering Tamil Nadu
In the wake of the failure of the monsoon for two successive years, almost the entire stretch of Tamil Nadu faces a summer of drought, distress and
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Forecasting the monsoon
A new statistial forecast model developed by the India Meteorological Department predicts a normal monsoon for
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The heat of poverty
Poverty is the underlying reason for the large number of heat related deaths reported from Andhra Pradesh this summer; the heatwave is just the proximate