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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Cleaning up the act
It was a brain wave that brought results. The 'clean village' competition of the Maharashtra government was supposed to be just another scheme. Rural folk, however, embraced it with tremendous
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Death by water
Medha Patkar foes on a satyagraha as a hundred villages in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are about to be
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Officers on a mission
As district collector of Mandasur, Anurag Jain felt that plain administration did not benefit anyone. He wished to do something worthwhile and decided to improve irrigation. Jain's initiatives for
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Dam, dam, dam
Shahapur, another tribal village of Thane, Maharashtra, is facing severe water scarcity though the tehsil boasts of three major irrigation projects - Tansa, Vaitarana and Bhatsa. Hundreds of farmers
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Bullied out of home
Every time a government vehicle arrives in a tribal village that is in danger of being submerged by the Maan dam, it spells devastation for the tribals. More than 1,200 tribal families are being
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Showers of grace
Sri Sathya Sai water supply project for Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh has quenched the thirst of 800 villages. Thanks to the project, over a million people in Anantapur have potable water at
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Thirst of India
It just takes 2,600 hand pumps running for ten hours to suck Delhi dry of all its ground water. This is no doomsday theory but a fact of life staring at the face of the people in the Capital. In
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Fueling change
On April 1, the government will do away with the administered price mechanism (APM) in the oil industry - a euphemism for following the command and control system while pricing petroleum products -
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A will and a way
Mattamukundapur once used to repel visitors. Situated southeast of Behrampur in Orissa, it was a maze of mud huts, with dirty streets reeking of human waste, uncultivable land and unhealthy people.
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Hydrogen bound
In a cramped room in the Banaras Hindu University, where bulky books take centre stage, a silent revolution is taking place. Professor Onkarnath Srivastava, who spends 12 hours each day in this