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Revisiting economics of congestion
In our December 31, 2006 issue we raised some questions in the editorial, 'Economics of congestion'. Readers responded. Here is a cross section of views Theory-practice hiatus Shreekant Gupta,
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In short
monsoon forecast: India will receive normal monsoon rainfall in 2005, the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) predicted on April 20, 2005. Union science and technology minister Kapil Sibal said
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• A sewage leak from a chemical plant in Linxiang city recently spilled arsenide, a known carcinogen, into a river in central China's Hunan province, poisoning drinking water for nearly 100,000
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What treatment?
<img src="../files/images/20071031/34.jpg" align="left" /><b>Regulation has not worked for drug industry</b><br>
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Soft option
The Bush administration has proposed to overhaul US fuel economy regulation for the first time since it was adopted in 1975. The new proposals are, in part, based on a 2001 report of the US National
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Tactless fisherfolk pactless
Another worthy cause has been lost to the number game. Almost 15 million fishworkers of the world suffered a blow when the 93rd annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ilo) did
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Hostile takeover
On August 14, 2005, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje instructed the forest secretary to prepare a proposal for setting up a separate Ranthambore Board to manage the park. "I cannot say anything before the proposal is finalised and cleared by the cabinet,' says Sudarshan Sethi, forest secretary, Rajasthan.<br>
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IPM doesn t bring down costs
M S Chari, the architect of NPM, advises the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA
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Amazon not for sale, says Brazil
BRAZIL recently declared its opposition to a British proposal for a global trust to buy and preserve land in the endangered Amazon rainforests. It has instead asked Al Gore, the former us
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Lawless prospectors
Illegal mining in Gujarat exposed When Porbandar-based Saurashtra Chemicals, owned by detergent giant Nirma, lodged a police complaint in the first week of October 2006 alleging mineral theft
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Interview Andhra Pradesh Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah
Andhra Pradesh Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah talks to S.Ramakrishna on why the state is for the Polavaram project. "We have spent over Rs 1,500 crore on the project' Polavaram
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Mission impossible
Post Tsunami Sri Lanka traverses the snag infested path to disaster management
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• Cycle Chem Inc will spend more than half a million dollars to correct hazardous waste violations and upgrade equipment at their hazardous waste facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, usA. The
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Laissez Faire
Government sits back, carmakers make hay No one knows where to place the ultra-low-cost cars in the overall paradigm shift in technology in India. Small cars and downsizing have begun to find
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Pakistani architect Arif Hasan on low income settlement projects
Pakistani architect and town planner Arif Hasan is well known for his involvement in designing low-income settlement programmes, for which he has set up an independent initiative in Karachi. He talks
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Unaccounted for groundwater
Sixty-four per cent of Orissa's industrial units are using groundwater through bore wells. Going by government data, 145 of the 225 industrial units in the state are using groundwater, while the rest
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Parking brakes
Beijing authorities are considering increasing parking fees in busy areas to discourage people from driving and encourage use of public transport. Areas likely to be targeted are busy commercial districts like <font class="UCASE">cbd</font> and Zhongguancun, and congested areas like Yansha and Beijing Western Station, according to the Beijing Muni-cipal Development and Reform Commission.
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Proposals put on hold
Panel for second look at diverting protected forests
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Busy preludes to biodiversity meet
Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing were taken up by two working groups of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD in December. The bod