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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Missing panchayat
How caste prejudices and class interests brought about the demise of a panchayat administered well by Dalit leaders in Tamil Nadu. A demonstration in front of the Collectorate in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu against the January 8 arrests at Iruvappapuram.
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No childs play
The Toxics Link study found high concentrations of lead in all samples of soft toys containing PVC. Even trace amounts of lead are dangerous to children.
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Hungry and dying
Hunger is unpalatable. For a government that wishes to assert that it is not callous, it is particularly so. But hunger, with a capital H, is a pill that millions of people in Madhya Pradesh continue to swallow.
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Political project
Until the second week of September, when both the ruling Congress and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suddenly discovered that the affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the Supreme Court on the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project was controversial and hurt religious sentiments, the biggest political ripples created by
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Myth vs Science
Science and rationality have taken a beating in the unfolding of the recent events surrounding the controversial mega marine project called the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) of the Government of India.
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Deathly inaction
Bhagirathi Behera of Tikiri village offers voluntary service at the primary health centre where a number of cholera patients come for treatment.
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Asian trauma
If the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is stalemated, a great part of it is because of the resistance of small farmers, including those in Asia. One of the terrible truths of the 20th century is that it was a blight on small farmers or peasants everywhere.
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Urban crisis
A CAG report on health services in four major Delhi hospitals reveals the plight of the urban poor. In a slum in New Delhi. With more agrarian distress and fewer employment opportunities in rural areas, the population of the urban poor will only grow.
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Housing catastrophe
The author brings us face to face with the consequences of decisions taken by those far removed from the stench and struggle of slum reality.
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Dark side of mining
The reality of Orissa's iron ore mines, where the promise of prosperity is just empty rhetoric. Hundreds of hectares of forests have been lost to mining over the years in a situation where encroachments are impossible to monitor. The most common illegality is to continue mining long after the lease has ended.