MSP not helping rainfed
A study by Ramesh Chand of the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research shows rainfed farmers invariably suffer from price fluctuations and earn less out of agriculture. The
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Streetcar named desire
Mixed views on the low-cost wheeze Dipankar Khurana, MBA student, New Delhi Institute of Management
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Antibiotic research
A group of researchers headed by D G Joakim Larsson, associate professor at G
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Rolling on
Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories).
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Genesis of crisis
The Hirakud reservoir cannot provide water for both irrigation and industries Farmers say they are not getting enough water for irrigation. The government claims surplus water in the Hirakud dam.
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Public transport
Rail-based: At least 114 km of railways are in operation in Beijing municipality. By 2008 there will be 188 km. Current capacity is 2.4 million passengers per day but it carries 1.7 million. By 2008,
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Desperately seeking experts
The environmental situation in India is grave our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and there is an acute paucity of expertise to combat this crisis. Like any other government department, the Union ministry of environment and fo
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Saving saffron
J&K proposes a strategy
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Sea sand crisis
Sri Lanka s government flayed for mining coastal sand dunes
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Endosulfan meeting
Controversial Dubey committee report reviewed
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Self sufficient victims
Post-tsunami, expensive coral restoration plans might not be needed after all, says a recent advisory report commissioned by the World Bank (wb) and prepared by scientists led by a researcher from
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Learning to bargain
Aggressively claiming its right over its natural resources post tsunami, Indonesia recently adopted a new law that requires all foreign fishing vessels to give 70 per cent of their catch to the
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Facing the flood
How prepared is Bihar?
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Non Aussie blotch
Under pressure from farmers, Australia is set to adopt new labelling laws that facilitate distinguishing between Australian and "imported' food. Food products with less than 85 per cent
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Bust the mills
The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province, bordering Uruguay, recently announced his decision to file a complaint with us -based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, opposing the
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Paradise threatened
Recently tonnes of oil slick and oil tar were washed off into the Arabian Sea, polluting half a dozen beaches in Goa. This is the second such incident to have occurred this year in India's top
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Net to capture trafficers
The world's largest wildlife law enforcement network has been launched by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean), on November 01, 2005. Known as asean Wildlife Enforcement Network
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Away from home
When the Tamil Nadu government started cracking the whip, trying to move fishing villages away from the coasts in accordance with the rules governing the coastal regulation zones (CRZ), they
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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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Bogaram village
Kosgi <i>mandal</i>, Mahbubnagar district