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Small Islands, Big Impact
This new short film highlights plight of the Maldives, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to sea level rise. Produced by TVEAP in collaboration with COM+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, it is based on an exclusive interview with President Nasheed of Maldives.
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- 01/10/2009
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FROM THE BLURBS
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA by O P Sharma, Oxford University Press, Rs 795 The law of the sea has undergone more changes in the last 60 years than in the past 100. This book deals with some of the changes.
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA by O P Sharma, Oxford University Press, Rs 795 The law of the sea has undergone more changes in the last 60 years than in the past 100. This book deals with some of the changes. The author analyzes concepts like ocean governance, the limitations on the freedom of the seas and looks at the importance of maritime cooperation in various spheres of the
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- 29/09/2009
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‘Village level forecast will take time’
On India Meteorological Department using statistical models instead of dynamical ones for forecasting Tell me which dynamical model has given correct forecasts for India?
On India Meteorological Department using statistical models instead of dynamical ones for forecasting Tell me which dynamical model has given correct forecasts for India? The forecasts for Indian monsoons given by the US, UK and Europe in April this year (using dynamical models) threw up different predictions. None of them could predict monsoons would be so low. But the India Meteorological
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- 29/09/2009
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No endorsements for ethics
back in the 20th century, when nation-building was not a foul term and public-private partnership was not a keyword, children grew up with the ideal of becoming doctors and engineers. Medicine was a noble profession. With changing times, commerce has become more reliable as an instrument of healthcare than nobility; medical insurance sounds more reasonable than the Hippocratic oath.
back in the 20th century, when nation-building was not a foul term and public-private partnership was not a keyword, children grew up with the ideal of becoming doctors and engineers. Medicine was a noble profession. With changing times, commerce has become more reliable as an instrument of healthcare than nobility; medical insurance sounds more reasonable than the Hippocratic oath. But the
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- 29/09/2009
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Business bites
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was done with the recognition that the nutrition gap (between what children should be
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was done with the recognition that the nutrition gap (between what children should be
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Exclusive cereal-dependence
The ICDS programme launched in the 1970s was based on the results of extensive surveys which identified rampant child under-nutrition in India. Using the weight-for-age and height-for-age criteria, only 10 per cent children under five could be classified normal. And 15-20 per cent were underweight even when they were short.
The ICDS programme launched in the 1970s was based on the results of extensive surveys which identified rampant child under-nutrition in India. Using the weight-for-age and height-for-age criteria, only 10 per cent children under five could be classified normal. And 15-20 per cent were underweight even when they were short. The situation has not improved in the past 35 years despite
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- 29/09/2009
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A lesson for the civil servant
Book>> Beyond Relocation, The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement • Edited by Renu Modi • Sage • Rs 850 For the past two decades, the Indian civil society has been demanding a resettlement policy for people displaced by development projects. Rehabilitation is a bugbear of policy makers and civil servants.
Book>> Beyond Relocation, The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement • Edited by Renu Modi • Sage • Rs 850 For the past two decades, the Indian civil society has been demanding a resettlement policy for people displaced by development projects. Rehabilitation is a bugbear of policy makers and civil servants. Many in the government are torn between the imperatives of ensuring economic
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- 29/09/2009
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Dots not joined
Book>> False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World • by Allan Beattie • Penguin • Indian Price Rs 450 The subtitle of Allan Beattie’s book promises a surprising economic history of the world. And the former World Trade editor of Financial Times tries too hard to keep up to it. Right at the beginning of False Economy he plays a prank on the reader.
Book>> False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World • by Allan Beattie • Penguin • Indian Price Rs 450 The subtitle of Allan Beattie’s book promises a surprising economic history of the world. And the former World Trade editor of Financial Times tries too hard to keep up to it. Right at the beginning of False Economy he plays a prank on the reader. He asks: what
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Facile material
Book>> Uranium, War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World • by Tom Zoellner, Viking• Indian Price Rs 850 For most of us uranium is an abstraction, more like a gigabyte than, say, silver. We know of the Bronze Age civilizations, the role of coal in the Industrial Revolu tion, but there is hardly anything on the history of the rock that shaped the nuclear age.
Book>> Uranium, War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World • by Tom Zoellner, Viking• Indian Price Rs 850 For most of us uranium is an abstraction, more like a gigabyte than, say, silver. We know of the Bronze Age civilizations, the role of coal in the Industrial Revolu tion, but there is hardly anything on the history of the rock that shaped the nuclear age. Historian Tom Zoellner tries
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- 29/09/2009
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September 9, 2001
US became a superpower and Argentina a basket case owes nothing to intricacies of geography, culture or religion. Countries become rich or poor because of the choices their rulers make. But what is so new about that?
US became a superpower and Argentina a basket case owes nothing to intricacies of geography, culture or religion. Countries become rich or poor because of the choices their rulers make. But what is so new about that? Why some countries thrive and others fail is a big question in economics. Beattie hops from country to country and across history for answers. In one chapter he visits
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