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Jammed!
The state of our nation
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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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Imminent deluge
Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world"s burgeoning waste trade
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Fiscal fitness
While commercial vehicle operators appeal to the Supreme Court to review its order on the phase-out of 15-year old vehicles, the Delhi government ponders over a new financial scheme for them. But will the mechanism work?
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India will soon play a major role
SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to environment and more specifically, forests. Eloquent on issues on which there are strong perceptional differences bet
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This land is our land
If anything can help Papua New Guineans find the "unique way" enshrined in their Constitution, it is their traditional land ownership system.
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Garbage to gold
In Bombay, simple technologies are being used to convert garbage into fuel and biofertilisers.
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Urban wildlife and disappearing commons
"What are we supposed to feel when a sarkari animal carries our children away? Are we still supposed to love the animal and the sarkar?" This plea by an activist working with poor people living in
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Upholding the right to hygiene
The citizens of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh continue to put up with a filthy, malodorous town despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling 13 years ago, which held it mandatory for municipalities to provide sanitation facilities.
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Dialogue of the Deaf
<p>One of the major events organized by the Ministry of Urban Development is the Urban Mobility Conference held in New Delhi in the first week of December each year. The theme of the latest conference held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2010 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi was “Sustainable Urban Transport: Accessibility and Inclusive Cities”.
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A year of despair -- and hope
PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same
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CETPs: in fashion
Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef)
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The sounding board
At the onset of the Green Rating Project, cse set up a project advisory panel ( pap ) comprising industry leaders, judges, research and development experts, policymakers, academicians,
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Who prospers from development?
Rajender Singh, chairperson and managing director of National Thermal Power Corp described to Down To Earth the way NTPC is tackling issues relating to environment and rehabilitation
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Killer industries
Government industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm flounting industries in Gujarat
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No lead in Lanka
Sri Lanka is set to curb atmospheric lead pollution by introducing lead free petrol for its cars
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Blowing the lid
The Emmy Awards for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
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Patchwork economics
Is a free trade area for the Americas "band aid types" solution?
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Hotbeds of energy
Simmering rocks found several kilometres beneath the earth's surface hold the potential to meet our power needs
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Developing diversity
Isn t a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?