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• More than 40 people were killed and hundreds injured when a massive earthquake hit Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district in the earthquake- prone Narmada valley on May 22. The earthquake,
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Green puzzle
A cross section of opinions in response to 'Dark truths and lost woods' pages 31 41 by ANIL AGARWAL
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Rickshaws to the rescue
WHEN the Delhi Rickshaw Chalak-Malik Sangharsh Morcha (rickshaw drivers and owners agitation committee) staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) on
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Back to the future
finally from April 1997 after years of dithering, ignoring world opinion, and consistently downplaying the deleterious health effects of pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (ddt) and
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Bad medicine
A drug suspected of having disastrous side effects is being used as a contraceptive in Delhi
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Troubled waters
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SHRIPAD DHARMADHIKARYmuch water has flown down the rivers of this world and many
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Idle India
While most countries have instituted measures to ensure sustainable use of resources, India remains idle
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Empathy first
Life ad death for the ordiary Indian citizen have become mere statistics
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City blues
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BHANUSINGHA GHOSH out of a world population of 5,384 million in 1991, about 43 per
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Gradual extinction
Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London and his team suggest that most dinosaurs died due to changes in the earthly environment some 65 million years ago than due to exotic visitors
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Life positive
With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non infectious diseases that now threaten us
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Stop gaps
THIS book has come at a time when humankind the world over is grappling with the challenge of providing a cleaner environment. However, the continuing high levels of pollution, especially in the
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The southern connection
Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic
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Ready to die
around 5,000 members of the U'Wa tribe have threatened to commit suicide if an oil company from the us does not abandon its plans to drill for oil on their ancestral land. The tribe has already
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Earlier the better
With rapid rise in the incidence of breast cancer, a new approach for early detection is welcome
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MERCOSUR BLOCK
Of late, jazzy terms like 'natural product' (for a traditional herbal drink), 'bio-yoghurts', 'super eco' (for unleaded gasolene) and 'natural supermarkets' have invaded the 'mercosur' trading
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The light of gravity
Highly accurate measurements about a star s features can be made by using its gravity
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All for a name
Naming of elements which are discovered in accelerators is a controversial subject. The heaviest 19 elements are not found in nature and are created by physicists in their laboratories. The
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Sensitive explorer
S R Manalis and his colleagues at the Stanford University, in the US, have reported the fabrication of a new type of cantilever which uses optical deflection and is extremely sensitive. A movable
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MIXED FARE
A federal court in North Carolina, US, recently passed a landmark judgement related to smoking when it ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can regulate sales and labelling on