A headache called Bush
George W Bush s fixation for fossil fuels and nuclear power enrages environmentalists
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Size does matter
Children s toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet
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Poison sellers past sins
Leading tobacco firm Philip Morris sought to downplay the well-established link between passive smoke and sudden infant death syndrome (sids) by influencing a scientist's research paper, according
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INDIA
The total food grain production reached an all-time high of 186 million tonnes in 1994-95, says the annual report of the Union ministry of agriculture with unprecedented optimism. India's
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The Root Of All Evil
Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains denuded in the process
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Only people s participation in eco projects can combat corruption
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Suresh P Prabhu</font></b></font> looks back on his tenure as Union minister for environment and forests and speaks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Lian Chawii </font></b></font> and <font class='UCASE'>
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Hostile germs
A deadly strain of bacteria has developed resistance to antibiotics
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Turned on its head
A conventional theory on how a bacteria adopts tactics of self defence stands questioned
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The battle of the Indian bulge - I
In Nagpur city, women gather outside a court. In broad daylight they lynch a local serial rapist. When four women are arrested, few hundred women own up to the crime. They say they killed Akku Yadav
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Health watch
Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report
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Super salt
Bechgaard, an organic salt, has extraordinary qualities of superconductivity
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All the water they need
Rainwater harvesting is catching on in a big way in Kochi
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Pregnancy calcified
New research findings show that adequate intake of calcium is a remedy for anxiety and high blood pressure related conditions in many expecting women
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Beacons for the blind
Associations lending a hand in preventing and curing blindness
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A plague on this country
The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the administration and the country's health system collapsed under the power of both
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A policy that kills!
The government s fuel pricing policy is the very essence of irrationality
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Driven to suicide
Can the high pollution levels in Delhi lead a person to commit suicide? A 40-year-old deputy secretary in the ministry of rural development, L Balachandra, had committed suicide at his Pragati Vihar
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CHARITABLE DISTRUST
Government benefits are given to organisations. In turn they are required to fulfil certain conditions. Some fail to do this
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The changelings
A recent experiment explains how insects might have evolved
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Anti-corruption crusades
Corruption, whether the high level variety or its more pervasive low level counterpart, is related to the lack of transparency and accountability in the governance system