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
Frontline (Chennai)
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Unhealthy trend
The present government and the ones before it have neglected the health sector, as the National Family Health Surveys show. WHAT is the state of the nation
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Imperfect sympathy
What the manifestos and common minimum programmes of political parties and governments in the past held for Dalits. IN the last two decades, major political parties and coalitions in power have expressed sympathy for the Scheduled Castes (S.Cs), the Scheduled Tribes (S.Ts) and the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBCs) /Other Backward Classes (OBCs)/Backward Classes (B.Cs) in their
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Tapping glaciers
China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation.
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Plans and progress
The State government
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Rights and forests
THE Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or Forest Rights Act (FRA) in short, was heavily debated right from its inception up to its coming into force on December 31, 2007. While most of the arguments that preceded its notification focussed on the perceived positive or harmful effects of the Act, they are yet to become evident.
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Wake-up call
In India, the ILO report says, casual workers earn 45 per cent less than regular workers.
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Close encounters in the wild
N.A. NASEER shoots animals. In all his treks through the Western Ghats for nearly 15 years, he had come across the Nilgiri marten only once before
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Captive Ganga
IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river upstream.
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Down and out
The message from reports on the ground is clear. Unemployment in India
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Plans and progress
A number of irrigation projects, developmental activities and educational programmes are under way in the district. In phase I of the Vamsadhara project, the construction of the left main canal and the release of water from the Gotta barrage helped irrigate some 25,000 hectares.