Fighting to break free
the political clout enjoyed by the pharmaceutical industry is evident from the fact that very few attempts at taming the malpractices perpetrated by it have succeeded so far. The top 20
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Take Unani medicines seriously
<font color=red>HAKIM MOHAMMED KHALID SIDDIQUI</font>, director of Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, New Delhi, tells <font color=red>VIBHA VARSHNEY </font> that Unani medicines have the potential to cure a host of diseases
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Spreading message
Increasing water harvesting and water conservation is the only way to ensure food security
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Detergents threaten India s waterbodies
<font class='UCASE'>Narinder K Kaushik,</font> professor emeritus at the University of Guleph, Ontario, Canada, speaks to <font class='UCASE'>Nitin Sethi</font> on the dangers of phosphate content in detergents
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Global agribusiness
World trade in organic products for 2000 were estimated at US $17.5 billion (see table: Growing organically). Trends indicate that the organic food market would grow substantially in most of the
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Chernobyl impasse solved...
..but that is not the end of problems for Ukraine, as answers to important issues' like the future of workers and alternate energy and monetary resources are still to be found
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Losing the edge
As the world increasingly resorts to natural, plant derived cures for illnesses, the wealth of India's traditional medicinal systems lies virtually untapped because of poor research and development and marketing.
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Oiling the wheels of globallisation
The Commission on Global Governance calls for a democratic world governance to deal with increasing global interdependence
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Biotech parley
A conference on biotechnology in Bangalore failed to live up to its hype
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Nutrition attrition
By blindly pushing rice and wheat through the public distribution system (PDS), the government is spreading malnutrition among India’s poor. “The paddy varieties grown in our country mostly contain
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You take my heart away
When it comes to recieving hearts and kidneys, men do better than women. Women do better when it comes to donating organs
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A tale of two treatments
In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The
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Coming of the know all
The socio ecological implications of the knowledge revolution are many and multifaceted. But the world needs a system where a 'post bi polar' order is yet to be defined
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The beetle and the bureaucrat
Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy
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A native renaissance
Indigenous peoples of the world have been objects of downright apathy and brutal repression at worst, and mild tourist or academic interest at best for years. Today, they are fighting to overcome the shadows that dog their collective existence. And the wo
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To be healthy, wealthy and wise...
...activists must fight for better prevention and health education
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After the last tree is felled...
"Sustainable development" cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural capital
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The new wave
THE '80s and '90s have witnessed the globalisation and opening up of the Indian economy. The megacities of India have now become the' stage for the new political. and socio-economic
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Vedic chants on the ether
The Vedas have hit cyberspace, and a modern institute, which follows an ancient system of imparting knowledge, is India's answer to the myriad systems 'on, the world wide web
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Not mine, says India
India, the US, and a handful of nations have decided to keep out of the agreement to ban anti personnel landmines