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Magsaysay awardee on eye care for poor in Nepal
<font class='UCASE'>Sanduk Ruit</font> is the third Nepali to receive the Magsaysay award. He was recognised for his outstanding work at placing Nepal in the forefront of developing safe, effective and economic procedures for cataract surgery, enabling
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Making space for emissions
What does the ubiquitous auto rickshaw and the plush aeroplane have in common, other than getting us from one place to another? The auto rickshaw, as India s largest manufacturer Rahul Bajaj will
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Revision of regulation of EIAs for what?
the Union ministry for environment and forests has recently amended its draft notification putting in place a new regime that will govern environment impact assessments (eias), (see
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Cola controversy lesson for media management
the day after Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss told Parliament that the Centre for Science and Environment's (cse's) exhaustive study on carbonated beverages was "inconclusive', the Delhi
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Uttaranchal tea estates bane for farmers
a shameful scam has been perpetrated in the hills of Uttaranchal. Some years before the new state was inaugurated the then Uttar Pradesh government conceived a grandiose scheme of acquiring 12,000
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Climate change denial must stop
<img src="image/20060930/5.jpg" align="right">Just imagine
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Information power imperative
Democracy is not yet dead
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Divert, deny, dismiss and damn
What a line of attack! PepsiCo, in its advertisements to deny that it had pesticides in its drinks, said that there were more pesticides in tea, eggs, rice and apples. Coca Cola, in its defence, has
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Former militant Bijoy Hrankhal on Tripura's tribal needs
<font class='UCASE'>Bijoy Kumar Hrankhal </font> was the founder member and vice president of the Tripura National Volunteer, the first militant group in Tripura. He laid down arms in 1989, after a treaty with late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The treaty
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Veerbhadra Mishra on Ganga Action Plan
Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga s fortunes in Varanasi. A man who wears many hats head priest of the Sankat Mochan Temple, a former engineer, an activist Mishra tells Pradip S
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Big deal
Industry s learnt the development shibboleths
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It s a bad, bad world
So let s not pretend being nice to all
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Globalisers retreating into little shells
In 20 years, the world has come full circle: in the mid 1980s the process of globalisation intensified with the rich countries taking the lead in interconnecting countries because it was in their
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Government's relief for Maharashtra farmers not enough
Pro farmer government shows its colours
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Government's decision on public sector units bad news for neo liberal economists
A fall out of neo liberal economics
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Migratory birds expert Taej Mundkur on bird flu
Taej Mundkur, an expert on migratory birds, tells Padmaparna Ghosh that bird flu spreads through respiratory route , and not just the faecal route. Mundkur is on the scientific committee of bird flu of the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO
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Who has framed the Food Safety and Standards Bill, the government or the industry?
When Parliament convenes for the monsoon session, the government plans to introduce the Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005. I am sure the government will hope there is enough mayhem to distract the
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Focus of reservation lost in protests
Focus of reservation lost in protests
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Theory of evolution under scanner
Another body blow for the myth of choice