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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Wooing farmers
Maharashtra's pre-electoion Budget, while providing several concessions to the farming community, fails to address the core problems of water scarcity and unemployment of landless
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An icy riddle
Research by scientists in Greenland reveals a slow but steady change in the island's environment as a result of global warming. In the last few years, Greenland's melt zone, where summer warmth turns
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A walk to save water
Residents of drought-hit Osmanabad district learn from an innovative programme on groundwater conservation that local involvement and schemes at the micro-level can go a long way in saving the precious
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Food for all
The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine that public
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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 Kerala.
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Developing doubts
A new plan is on to develop Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, but its residents are sceptical. Few buildings have come up. Some have been left incomplete. Now, the Maharashtra Government has approved yet
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Claims and controversies
A survey commissioned by Mahco Monsanto states that Bt cotton is a success in India but other studies slam its performance, leaving the farmer
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Rice and rights
The Chhattisgarh Seed Satyagrah continues its struggle to prevent foreing multination companies from getting hold of the rice germplasm collection with the Indira Gandhi Krishi
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Rice and rights
The Chhattisgarh Seed Satyagrah continues its struggle to prevent foreign multinational companies from getting hold of the rice germplasm collection with the Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya. AKTI
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A story of courage
In a unique effort, three years after an earthquake devastated Kutch a group of women from villages across the affected region don the role of amateur film-makers in order to highlight the valiant efforts