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30/03/1997
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Piloting the train to ruin
DEVE GOWDA's anti-environment measures never seem to come to an end. Before becoming the Prime Minister (PM), Deve Gowda had said in an interview to Down To Earth (DTE): "Often people are being
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Breezing through
Among the plethora of film-based TV channels and programmes, one channel that stands out is Discovery. Since its inception in August 1995, the channel has built up a reputation for providing
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W h ither Indian science?
High profile science need not be the cornerstone of Indian science policy. What is required is to give more thrust to existing methodologies and increase peoples' awareness in scientific developments
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In short supply...
... amongst us, is the common sense to see the effects of continuing eco degradation and do something about it
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Escape to... disaster?
How long will we run away from the scene of our own crime? Only till one day we come face to face with our own grime? How will Michael Jackson's surgical mask help him? While his
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Cooking the goose...
Chidambaram has given a thrust to industrial development. But by failing to balance this development with environmental concerns, he has cooked the goose of millions
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"We are starved of funds"
KALYAN BANERJEE, director of the National Institute of Virology NIV in Pune, speaks to MAX MARTIN about the emergence and re emergence of viral diseases in India. Banerjee warns that the hantavirus, one of the most lethal killers discovered till date, m
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Toxic turnover
Homicide by Pesticides: words of shared concern
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One step forward...
the Supreme Court's (sc) warning to senior officials of the ministry of environment and forests to enforce laws banning industries from using and dumping prohibited noxious chemicals or face the
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Petty decision
the newly-elected Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal's move to provide free irrigation water and electricity to farmers will only harm the economy and the environment, without helping those
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Fear is the key
Charles Darwin spent 20 years perfecting his ideas on evolution and how it operates. What motivated him to channelise his energy and focus for so long on his work? Thomas J Barloon and Russell
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Misinformed choices
world -renowned scientists and writers Paul and Anne Ehrlich have for long devoted themselves to educating the public and policy-makers about environmental issues. Their efforts have greatly
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Gaining strength from struggle
PRESENTING a story set in a not very captivating environment and yet command- ing the attention of the audience, the film portrays the trials and tribulations of the women of Kotra village,
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The awareness here is dismal
Karnataka High Court s Justice M F Saldanha has emerged as one of judiciary s standard bearers in the ongoing battle to save the environment. His judgement on tree felling in Mumbai in 1994, when he was with the Maharashtra High Court stipulated the n
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Bureaucratic bargains
according to an eminent agricultural scientist, when he first entered Krishi Bhavan (the headquarters of the agriculture ministry in New Delhi), an Indian Administrative Service officer who used
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Good, but not enough
The efforts of South Asian countries at cooperation in the field of science and technology have a long way to go
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Spare parts... any takers?
The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown
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Brain versus brawn
about 65 million years ago the dinosaurs, at that time the dominant animals, became extinct probably because of the secondary consequences of a meteorite impact suffered by the earth. The mammals,
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Voicing the pain
"i am a healthy human being, leading a straight life. Why should I worry about aids?' That is the common reaction to aids awareness campaigns. hiv/aids is thought of as something that happens