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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Rights and forests
The FRA provides an opportunity to resolve a number of issues that have plagued forest management in India for decades.
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Wake-up call
The ILO
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Funds aplenty
The Science and Engineering Research Board, established through an Act of Parliament, can sanction projects valued up to Rs.75 crore.
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Captive Ganga
The Bhagirathi is made to run through a tunnel in Uttarkashi, evoking strong protests from environmentalists. 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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Race to the top
Interview with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
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Homeless still
A tribunal finds the rehabilitation of victims of the tsunami in most affected regions far from satisfactory.
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Mines of scandal
THE impact of the global recession in terms of the slump in India
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For all-round growth
Interview with Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. "The idea of the 'hobli' level' 'Janaspandana' meetings... was to take government programmes and facilities directly to the rural masses."
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Clean-up order
HUNDREDS of contract workers engaged by local bodies and water supply and sewerage boards in major cities and towns to clean underground sewers virtually walk into death traps. A large number of them die instantaneously after inhaling noxious fumes in the sewers. Others die a slow death from respiratory and neurological ailments.
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Liberating a river
Undoing the damage done by human beings to nature is not a novel idea any more, not in the face of climate change. But actual actions in this regard are rare.