Unequal partnership
The preferred paradigm to address the obvious shortage of drugs for neglected diseases has been ppps between governments or international agencies on one side and the pharmaceutical industry on the
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Genesis of crisis
The Hirakud reservoir cannot provide water for both irrigation and industries Farmers say they are not getting enough water for irrigation. The government claims surplus water in the Hirakud dam.
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Learning to bargain
Aggressively claiming its right over its natural resources post tsunami, Indonesia recently adopted a new law that requires all foreign fishing vessels to give 70 per cent of their catch to the
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Paradise threatened
Recently tonnes of oil slick and oil tar were washed off into the Arabian Sea, polluting half a dozen beaches in Goa. This is the second such incident to have occurred this year in India's top
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EPA puts resources in cold storage
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to shut down its libraries, end public access to research materials and put into cold storage its collection of materials on the assumption
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• Argentines protesting against two pulp mill projects in Uruguay ended weeks-long road blockades as the two countries begin negotiations on the environmental safety of the plants. • The
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Chinnajalalapuram village
Singanamala <i>mandal</i>, Anantapur district
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One hour deadline
China's environment watchdog, the State Environmental Protection Administration (sepa), has recently asked industrial units and local officials to report environmental accidents to it within an hour
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Not fine
A soft-drink manufacturer was recently fined by a magistrate's court for leaking a purple, frothy, fruity-smelling discharge into the Wash Dike stream in West Yorkshire. The manufacturer, Cott
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• Seventeen countries including Brazil, Australia and the UK have in a written statement urged the Japanese government to stop Antarctic whaling. • A Stone Age man found frozen in the
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In Court
Hunter hunted: One of Cambodia's most infamous wildlife hunters has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for trapping and killing over 600 animals, many endangered. Earlier, much concern had
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EC stops import of US long grain rice
Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its
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Locust invasion
A severe locust invasion has destroyed large tracts of cotton and grain crops in Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya province. All attempts by farmers and Uzbek authorities to contain the crisis have proved
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Rapu Rapu spill
The Filipino government has imposed a fine on a unit of Lafayette Mining Ltd, Australia, for two cyanide spills that contaminated the water system on Rapu-Rapu island. An initial fine of us $198,000
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South Asia
Reviving SACEP: At the Ninth Governing Council meeting of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) on August 26, 2005, in Thimpu, Bhutan, environment ministers of India, Bhutan,
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Sweltering issue
Trinidad's capital recently witnessed a protest against a proposed aluminium smelter when about 200 people lit candles, sang hymns and marched through a park claiming the smelter will harm the area's
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Party time
But who pays Goa is a tourist paradise. But tourists need more than just sun and sand. In its defence of the Regional Plan, the government says, "Goa's economy was initially based on mining.
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The acre feet fuss
But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!
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Not assisting reproduction
To check commercial abuse of assisted reproductive technology (art), China has banned the commercial donation and supply of human eggs and tightened its control over sperm banks. New rules state that
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Can t spot animals? Then know their droppings
March 17, 2000. In Seoul, Republic of Korea, thirteen people interested in studying and conserving wildlife got together to formalise what they'd been doing so far: sharing information on issues of