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Tribal leader B D Sharma explains the adverse consequences of the new economic policy on the tribal people in Globalisation: The Tribal Encounter. It vividly brings out their reaction to the
Tribal leader B D Sharma explains the adverse consequences of the new economic policy on the tribal people in Globalisation: The Tribal Encounter. It vividly brings out their reaction to the
Marcel Sony Labou Tansi. a novelist known for his satire and criticism of colonist Africa and the dictators who followed independence. died of complications due to AIDS. He was 48. His wife
Rural organisations need good marketing tips to promote their productions in a market-oriented era. Organising Rural Business: Policy, Planning and Management provides a management approach to
THE conservation agenda of India's wildlife establishment has always been held suspect by genuine environmentalists. The composition of the committee - mandated to "recommend ways and means to
The agonised voice of the Warli and Kokna tribes of Thane Maharashtra reach out to say, through Pradip Prabhu...
Community based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
The man who has hrought the Calcutta wetlands ecosystem to international limelight, DHRURAJYOTI GHOSH is still enchanted by challenges. As chief of the West Bengal government's Environment Improvement Programme EIP , this civil engineer turned doctora
The broad terms of the draft agreement expected to be ratified in August by countries participating in the 6th session of the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Jonas Salk, the man who humbled the dreaded polio virus, was that rarest of scientists, the "unconventional upstart"
Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He recently resigned as advisor on environmental and health problems to President Boris Yeltsin. Yablokov, 62, has a
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste
NO INDIVIDUAL can hope to remain anonymous as integration of computing and telecommunications has vastly improved the ability to collate, classify and analyse information about each person.
Environment 1995 Version describes succinctly and lucidly how the ecosystem work, how matter and energy move through the ecosystem, and how the population dynamics affects and is, in turn, affected
TheSea with aDoubleBottom is the story of the Black Sea. The film questions the lack of scientific initiative in trying so find solutions for reducing the pollution in the Black Sea. The
John Emsley author of The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life, was awarded the L10,000 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize. The book was chosen out of
Indian-born scientist, V.N. Mallikarjun Rao has been bestowed with the title of "distinguished scientist' by Dupont. Rao who had joined the company in 1973, has 55 patents in different areas which
The pampered paper industry in India is being given another sop. It has consistently lobbied for captive plantations in the country's forest tracts. Success, it seems, is at hand because the Indian
Fishing practices in Chilika are threatening the Irrawaddy dolphin, which is not only rare but also little known
The most promising solution to the deepening power crisis in developing countries may be found in renewable energy systems, particularly from biomass resources (primarily wood and biomass