June 5, 2005
World Effrontery Day?
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Laws are modified to suit MNCs
A transfer order on May 10, 2005, cut short <font class='UCASE'>A Ramakrishnan</font> s crusade against sub standard food and drugs and malpractices by companies like Johnson and Johnson. The outgoing commissioner, Food and Drug Administration <font c
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Green light?
The public domain has no idea why a controversial project got the go ahead
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Ayurveda has no lobby
David Frawley , director, American Institute of Vedic Studies, New Mexico, USA spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Vibha Varshney</font> about ayurveda in the US
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Woolly headed environmentalism
Tribal rights and democracy loose to conservation banter
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Goodwill shunting
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Right to be informed
Chronology of an uphill struggle in Meghalaya
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Slaggard rules
Why cement makers are shy of waste material like
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Life after the Kyoto Protocol
All politicians and scientists except George Bush and his group of climate skeptic scientists accept climate change is now inevitable and that it will adversely, perhaps devastatingly, impact
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The Sun vs the Moon
Dam authorities don t think of those living downstream
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You cannot balance an economy by unbalancing human lives
Development economist <font class='UCASE'>Sir Richard Jolly</font> has been Principal Coordinator of <br> UNDP s Human Development Report. He is also Chairman of the Water Supply <br> and Sanitation Collaborative Council WSSCC . He spoke to <font cl
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Millennial blunder
Ecology cannot be a function of political economy
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Wolfowitz at the door
How can the developing world bank on him?
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What Sariska s taught us
Tigers vanish while tiger wallahs flourish
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Whistleblowing is bound to increase
<font class='UCASE'>Joyce Rothschild</font> , professor of sociology, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and <br><br> State University, USA, has studied whistleblowers for 10 years now. She responded to <font clas
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Moving nimbly beyond
People who understand water management will tell you that India is a traditional water economy and that it has to make the transition to a modern water economy. In other words, the water sector has to become part of the formalised economy. As with any feel-right challenge, this is normally accepted to be true. <br>
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POP, and we opt out
Something murky in India s ratification of two international conventions
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Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit
The discussions on the Union budget 2005 2006 reflect the media s middle class obsession. The finance minister s proposal for a fringe tax on perquisites and other benefits of the salariat was
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Mother of all milk
Why is the Indian state so paternal to milk substitutes?
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Time to tell the truth again
I really hope we are proved wrong when we say there are no tigers left in the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. But if it is so, what is now increasingly accepted as a sad fact should actually make