Green diktats
To ensure profitable agro exports, the South will have to cater to acute Northern green anxieties
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Arsenic Contamination
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Arsenic Contamination</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="Arsenic Contamination" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/bangladesh/arsenic_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>In the early 1970s, most people living in the countryside relied on surface water -- ponds, or rivers -- to meet their drinking water needs. As a result diseases due to bacteria-contaminated water, such as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera were extremely widespread. To tackle this problem, and the related problem of drinking water, the government switched to a policy of tapping groundwater. The government began providing villages with tubewells and handpumps, with aid from such organisations as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank:UNICEF initiated the programme and paid for the first 900,000 tubewells along with its co-sponsor.</p>
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Plasticky!
Europe is debating a ban on PVC due to environmental and health concerns. Industry is fighting back with a high profile campaign
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Tense? Cut down on fat
A lowfat diet can be as effective as any single drug therapy in checking high blood pressure
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Malnourished Children
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>S K Kabra</font></font> , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Nidhi Jamwal</font></font> about
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New responsibilities, few funds
The powers of local government in the UK derive from acts of Parliament -- not from the Constitution -- and can be amended to suit the wishes of the central government. The future of local
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Bad medicine
A REPORT written by leading pharmacologists claims that about 20 per cent of the drugs prescribed in Germany offer no real clinical benefits. The report says that distinguishing between effec-tive
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A change in scene
Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have filed a lawsuit in the US against Union Carbide Corporation and its former head Warren Anderson
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In the red
Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant s poisonous tubers to end their lives
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Going nowhere
The biosafety protocol is still a chimera
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BONE BAZAAR
Two small border towns, Tachilek in Myanmar and Mae Sai in Thailand, thrive on illegal trade in animal products. <font class=UCASE>ANIL AGARWAL</font> and <font class=UCASE>SUNITA NARAIN</font> take a stroll through the wildlife black market to give a gra
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Look at the sun
<div class="field field-type-text field-field-intro"> <p>Government has made half-baked efforts to promote solar pumps, a cost-effective irrigation tool</p> </div> <p><span class="standalone-image"
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MONEYMAKERS
PANDA Electronics Co, China's leading television manufacturer, has had enough of selling no-frills sets. It is gearing up for a into the satellite dish and telephone businesses. Panda believes that
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Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty
The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended beneficiaries is cited as a major reason for their failure.
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Lend me your hands
In a major scientific breakthrough, scientists conduct the world's first hand transplant
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INDIA
•The West Bengal government has introduced a water pricing policy for affluent users and industries. Accordingly, they will not only have to pay the operation and maintenance costs of
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Why Alang?
Good tides and weak enforcement favour the shipbreaking industry
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Community efforts
In which the people of Quincy got their act together
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Fireworks follow SMOKE
Tobacco companies will foot the medical bills of smokers who have cancer under an agreement with the US state of Florida. This spells bad times for the tobacco industry as the Clinton administration wants more in a national agreement
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Cowering behind lies
PETER B STONE presents an objective re examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe