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"Agriculture in India will never suffer"
Union Commerce Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to Down To Earth onGATT and related issues. Excerpts:
Union Commerce Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to Down To Earth onGATT and related issues. Excerpts:
In a recent breakthrough, an Indian mushroom has been found to be extremely effective in controlling heavy metal pollution
IN HIS now-classic Foundation science fiction series, Isaac Asimov introduced the "science" of "psychohistory" -- the mathematical modelling of social dynamics. The objective of "psychohistory" was
Not for nothing is Germany's BUND at the vanguard of the global environmental movement. It offers not only criticism but solutions as well
<i> Kerala s income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs</i>
Local decision making and an integrated approach towards nature hold the key to planning for a sustainable future
Who will fill the city's depleting aquifers?
Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast wiping out India's tiger population.
The American serpentine leaf miner that infiltrated into India about two years ago is destroying agricultural crops
The culture of `businesslike" individual enterprise is playing havoc with the age-old collective wisdom of communities that plan for the common good
The Japanese have refuted Indian press reports that they were satisfied with R&R measures for the Narmada dam project
A recent disaster that claimed 55 lives revealed the abysmal safety standards of India's mines.
To press for more sustainable and equitable utilisation of the world s resources, India and France seek closer ties
Faced with food surpluses, farmers in the UK are being encouraged to plant trees on part of their land and sell wood as fuel for heating or generating electricity.
CAN REGENERATING villages revive denuded hills? And, vice versa, can regenerating hills revive impoverished villages? Daulat Ram, the old man of Sukhomajri, a Gujjar hamlet near Chandigarh, once
Efforts to reduce pollutants in the Ganga have failed because of ignorance of the river's self cleansing ability, among other things.
A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation
Besides the communities who have done exemplary work in the field of environment, several individuals are making a difference in the lives of many people in various parts of India. Some of them, who were brought to Down To Earth's notice during the proces
THERE is something very beautiful about lakes -- not just aesthetically, but also intellectually. Lakes do not just mirror their environment. They also mirror the society around them. Clean water
<p>On reading this book it will be clear to the reader that a glimpse of what Mahatma Gandhi had been doing between 1920 and 1922 regarding the Satyagraha and Non-co-operation Movement had been seen in