Hot water; hotter tempers
On April 10, a hot sunny day, Chennai’s Chepauk stadium became a fortress. Yellow barricades, armed policemen and security vans surrounded the venue. The Indian Premier League was in town, and the Chennai
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The Best Act
Then you give ten 9 rupees to your son and ask him to get something from the market, you ask for accounts when he is back. Did we ever ask the same from the government whom we pay crores in taxes? No. Not because we did not want to do that. We always wanted to take account of every penny that we paid as taxes but could not do so because there were no legal or administrative procedures available.
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Knowledge is power
Meet nine warriors who used the Right to Information Act as a potent weapon By Dnyanesh Jathar, Kallol Bhattacherjee, N. Bhanutej and Deepak Tiwari
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Transforming Lives
One of the largest aluminium producers in the country with a market share of more than 30 per cent, Balco is poised to play a significant role in the context of globalisation. The company has achieved a dramatic surge in productivity and profit within a short span of five years from 2001when Sterilite took over the PSU.
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Crushed Lives
In 2002-2004, Karnataka's S.M. Krishna government blamed farmers' suicides on alcoholism and gambling. This time around, the authorities cannot ignore the bitter harvest and its aftermath. In Bidar district alone, 48 farmers have killed themselves since July 2006. All of them were sugarcane cultivators. .News of suicides is trickling in from Gulbarga, Gadag, Mandya and Chamarajanagar.
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Chain reaction
Spility Langrin Lyngdoh took a firm decision in 1994 that she would not give her land for uranium mining. She had heard about the radiation horror stories of Jaduguda village in distant Chhattisgarh.
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Packing a punch
Nine months ago, India's big power ambitions suffered a setback. The 3,000-km range Agni-3, launched for the first time last July from Wheeler Island off Orissa coast, fell into the Bay of Bengal. The then defence minister Pranab Mukherjee looked at it positively. "Partial success," he called it.
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Rape of the hills
The virgin beauty of Arakku Valley in the Eastern Ghats is a popular tourist draw, but it may soon be just a memory. The hill ranges from Papikonda in East Godavari to Sileru and Krishnadevipeta in Visakhapatnam district, rich in bauxite ore, have been chosen as the site for a mega aluminium project.
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Bye-bye Bisibele baath
The Mysore-based Central Food Technological Research Institute proposes to replace the mid-day meals in government schools with vitamin capsules. CFTRI Director Dr Nourish Tabletwallah, unveiling the
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Thanda matlab Tulmul
Sunita Narain, chief of the Centre for Science and Environment, looked pleased. On her testing counter stood Tulmul, India's first aerated beverage made from the extract of tulsi leaves. It seemed
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Floodgate of change
Malayala Manorama's water conservation campaign wins Unesco award for rural communication. I tis awarded every two years to recognise excellence in rural communication particularly in developing