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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From Indus to Satluj
The dispute between India and Pakistan over the use of the waters of the Indus and its tributaries and its resolution through a treaty in 1960 constitute a useful precedent to solve the present row.
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A canal crisis
The controversy over the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal only serves to stoke regional chauvinism and deflect attention from the real agrarian crisis faced by Haryana and Punjab.
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Leopards in an urban forest
The growing human casualties in attacks by leopards of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai highlight the increasing urban pressures on the park and the failure of the authorities, despite a
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An ongoing disaster
Contamination of soil and groundwater caused by the toxic waste left in Union Carbide's abandoned Bhopal plant poses a new health hazard for the survivors of the 1984 gas disaster, and the Government
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Breath of death
Silicosis continues to be a major killer in certain areas of Delhi and its neighbourhood where workers of stone-crushing and quarrying units are exploited by their employers and neglected by
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The great Indian divide
The sharp increase in rural-urban disparities in India after decades of planned development is alarming, for planning itself was conceived as an instrument to narrow down such
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Threat to a valley's silence
Silent Valley, one of the few remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical evergreen forests in India, is once again testing the resolve of environmentalists and the never-say-die dam builders of
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A walk to save water
Residents of drought-hit Osmanabad district in southern Maharashtra learn from an innovative programme on groundwater conservation that local involvement and schemes at the micro-level can go a long
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A blueprint for a policy
The report of the Task Force on Application of Agricultural Biotechnology on the development of a biotechnology policy has been received as a step in the right
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Biotechnology and a pioneer
The Madurain Kamaraj University, Madurai, can rightly be call the pioneer in biotechnology education in the country. It was the first to introduce a postgraduate course in the subject, in 1985,