Growing fences
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today
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Hardwar: Not without help
The malaria control operations have been successful only because of help from a large public sector corporation
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Drying wetlands
Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil
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Reclaiming clean air
An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in checking air pollution
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Empowering communities
most Non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) are born out of a sense of dissatisfaction and idealism. This dissatisfaction arises due to the inadequate working of official bodies, dissatisfaction
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A working government?
Political leaders come to the governance system with only one agenda which is centered on one objective to loot the treasury <br>
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Something in your ear?
Scientists identify the gene behind hereditary deafness
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Chidambaram's success
Why should anyone, honest or dishonest, pay an iota of money as tax to such an incompetent political and bureaucratic system?
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Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac
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When a river weeps...
Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying out for attention
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Is small really cost effective?
Although small hydro projects are expensive, they are clean and renewable sources of energy and there is scope to reduce costs
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Residential and transport energy use in India: past trend and future outlook
This study of residential and transport sectoral energy use in India is part of a larger effort at LBNL to provide analysis of energy use patterns at the level of sub-sectors and end uses for all sectors. There are two motivations for this effort.
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Residential and transport energy use in India: past trend and future outlook
This study of residential and transport sectoral energy use in India is part of a larger effort at LBNL to provide analysis of energy use patterns at the level of sub-sectors and end uses for all sectors. There are two motivations for this effort.
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Energy poverty in rural and urban India: are the energy poor also income poor?
Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as cooking and lighting. This paper proposes an alternative measure that is based on energy demand.
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Logjam
<font class='UCASE'>lpg</font> is possibly the most viable of all cooking fuels today, but even a debate on the issue is meaningless unless there are vigorous government efforts to promote healthy fuels
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Going to seed
A thermal power plant (TPP) is threatening to snuff out the 100-year-old livelihood of farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka. It is alleged that pollution from the unit has led to a steady decline
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Power to pollute
More power will mean more pollution, say participants at a recently held seminar in Lucknow
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Mumbai produces highest e waste
Mumbai is India's leading generator of e-waste, says the latest study by Toxics Link, an NGO dealing with toxic issues in India. The study Mumbai
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PUERTO RICO
Catano in Puerto Rico is a small town inhabited by some 35,000 people. But in an ordinary sunny day, hardly any children are seen playing in the streets, and many houses bear a deserted look.
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49 industrial units in Gujarat receive closure notice
GPCB issues closure noticeto 49 industrial units