Axe subsidy, not the bus
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"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"
Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting concern with the "dark continent of Africa, and UNO later took up assignments in Ethiopia and Nigeria. While
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Aiding agenda
The, availability of easy foreign money has made it convenient to continue with business as usual with expensive, economically inappropriate, and socially unjust ways of doing things
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNEES & URBAN
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The swaraj dream
Urbane intellectuals join hands with proud Gond tribals in an unique exercise to chalk out planning and development in adivasi hamlets
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Marginalised in Mexico
"WE WILL be back. The revolution will continue." Such was the graffiti left by the Zapatista National Liberation Army as they withdrew from San Cristobal de las Casas in the face of the Mexican
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vaccine against hepatitis a: Smith-kline Beecham Pharmaceuti cals have developed a new vaccine to prevent Hepatitis A. Harvix is a convenient two-dose vaccine for active immunisation against the
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Peaches and pests
Peach oil may replace some dangerous human made compounds used for pest control
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Projecting a distorted reality
A documentary for British children presents an inaccurate and oversimplified image of India.
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Are we ready to hand over on our life forms?
There are certain plants, vegetables and fruits indigenous to India having medicinal properties. The knowledge of these properties rests with local communities who still rely on it. However, the issue of patenting Indian biological and traditional mate
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A tryst winth death
The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge
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The mystery of the missing steel
Indians once produced a superior steel that metallurgists have not been able to duplicate even today.
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World's state as precarious as ever
THE STATE of the world continues to deteriorate. Any light at the end of the tunnel is, at best, hazy. Despite the slide, perceptions have changed and the State of the World report could have
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<b>CLONING TECHNOLOGY:</b> Geron, the US-based biotechnology company specialising in embryo research has bought the Scottish cloning technology that led to Dolly the sheep. The company aims to clone patients' cells to produce specialised tissues for transplantation. Geron is issuing about US $28 million of new shares to buy Roslin Bio-Med, a private company set up in 1998 to commercialise cloning research. Ian Wilmut, the scientist in charge of Roslin's cloning programme said Scottish science would benefit through Geron's research funding.
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Where have we gone wrong?
With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?
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Short cut to disaster
When a straight cut was dug to quicken the discharge from Kolleru lake, a small island became the casualty.
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Pitching eco messages and washing machines
A recent exhibition in Delhi drew crowds looking for discounts and new gadgets. But how many paid attention to a special section on the danger to the environment and the need for eco friendly development?
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DDA strikes again
Target: the Yamuna riverbedWeapon: Zonal Development Plan
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'Developmental aid is part of neocolonialism'
Although RAY WIJEWARDENE, 71, holds degrees in engineering and aeronautics from Cambridge, is a Doctor of Science (Honorls causa) from Sri Lanka"s technological university in Moratuwa and has received numerous awards. including the fellowsh
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Anti AIDS treatment aims at tolerating virus
Ayurveda practitioners in Kerala are experimenting with a novel approach to tackling AIDS: herbal medicines that increase the patient's immunity towards the virus