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On the anvil
National environment policy
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Screen test
Cheaper option to detect cervical cancer
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Basin watering recipe
The Amazon basin countries recently launched a new initiative to help the region's inhabitants manage water, forests and wildlife more efficiently. Water will be the focus area of the project,
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Definitive injustice
The us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) recently raised concerns by drafting a strategic plan on environmental justice that specifically cuts references to race, income, and some other
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Many sided farce
The current public distribution system in India
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Alarming ban
The South African government's intention to ban all production, import and export of asbestos has sounded alarm bells across the asbestos industry in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe National Chrysotile
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Corruption is not all
Bad planning is the biggest villain
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Ramchandrapuram village
Julurpad <i>mandal</i>, Khammam district
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Thailand dumps 189 garbage trucks for artificial reef
Thailand has dumped at least 189 old garbage trucks off its southern coast, in a bid to build an artificial reef to lure fish for local fishermen. The trucks, once used to collect refuse in Bangkok,
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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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IN SHORT
yes, radio: On November 17, 2006 the government approved an expansion of community radio stations by non-profit organisations. Applicants need to have a standing of at least three years.
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State of supply
Data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that in 2004, though production of most cereals decreased as compared to 1990, exports increased. Similarly, the production of pulses and groundnut decreased but exports increased. In both cases, domestic consumption too decreased. In the case of wheat, however, all three indicators showed a rise.<br>
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Missing numbers
No credible census The ambiguity over the peafowl's status is symptomatic of a serious problem
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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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Big game players
<b>Subhash Projects and Marketing Limited </b> (SPML) says it is a Rs 400-crore company with its registered office in Delhi, corporate office in Kolkata and branch offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur, Bhopal, Patna and Guwahati. It claims 25 years of expertise in turnkey projects, but its website has no reference to port development work.
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Squatters on wheels
Cars are major encroachers on public land. Parking gets huge hidden subsidies A typical vehicle stays parked 95 per cent of the time. A 2006 study by the Central Road Research Institute in New
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Biggest landlord
In a democracy of 84,326,240 tribal people "The crucial watershed in the history of Indian forestry,' writes historian Ramachandra Guha in his essay The Prehistory of Community Forestry
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Unequal partnership
The preferred paradigm to address the obvious shortage of drugs for neglected diseases has been ppps between governments or international agencies on one side and the pharmaceutical industry on the
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Big impact
Mining will tax area's natural resources The project needs more than rich forests. It requires power generation as well as roads to transport minerals. The environmental impacts