Butterfly wings to the aid of glaucoma patients
INSPIRED by tiny structures on transparent butterfly wings, scientists have developed a light-manipulating surface for more effective and longer-lasting eye implants for glaucoma patients. Researchers
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Blinkered vision
The government has chosen to look at the problem from the wrong end of the looking glass, the survival end.
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Dividing children
The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor. At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana
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Spread of hunger
Even States that claim to have impressive economic growth report severe under-nutrition and high infant mortality, particularly among their tribal populations. At an anganwadi centre in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. STATE OF DENIAL
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The main issue is peoples inability to secure essentials
Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist.
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Stunted India
Under-nutrition, as a
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Stilled in the womb
Female infanticide has declined in Tamil Nadu, but there is still an alarming decline of child sex ratio in many districts. When Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and main opposition All
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Plodding along
A people
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Yielding ground
A policy shift is evident as the Environment Minister seeks to drop the option of equal per capita entitlement of atmospheric commons.ONCE again, barely a month and a half after the Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Indian government
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Tinkering with crops
More testing has to be done on the new variety of brinjal and on any vegetable that may be in the process of being genetically modified.OVER three decades ago I was asked, as were other District Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners in the country, to help the agricultural officers in our districts to promote two new varieties of rice, which were called High Yielding Varieties, or HYV, among farmer
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Enabling whom?
In keeping with the overall approach of an