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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The fight for survival
Amid all the talk of environmental issues, planning priorities and relocation processes, the interests and concerns of the ordinary worker seem to receive the least
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A promising report
Agricutlural workers in Tamil Naidu demand the implementation of the recommendations of the Kalappan Committee, whose report is a well-researched document on their living conditions.
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A calamity in southern Africa
Floods and cyclones hit Mozambique and its neighbouring regions. The official death toll was 150. The loss in livestock too has been heavy. According to one report, nearly 80 per cent of the
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Profits over people
The attempts to suppress a people's movement against a mining project in southern Orissa lead to the death of three tribal people in police
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Now, Golden Rice
Even as controversy dogs the field trials of Bt-cotton, or Bollgard cotton - a variety genetically modified to make it resistant to bollworm pest - by the Pune-based firm Mahyco, based on a
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Some monkey business
Activism by animal lovers in the country is assuming militant and controversial dimensions, and facing the brunt of this upsurge are the scientists of national laboratories and the pharmaceutical
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Beedi fad
Warning of a worrisome new trend in youth smoking, Massachusetts health officials recently released the United States first official study on the prevalence among teenagers of smoking skinny,
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The farming crisis
Indian agriculture is facing a crisis. Globalisation and the structural adjestment programme and skewed policy approaches adopted by successive governments combine with other factors to hit the
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Breathing fire in Mexico
Popocatepetl, considered the world's most dangerous volcano, erupts, but efficient early warning systems promise to limit the
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On the world trade front
Appropriately for its role as a regulatory body that has intrusive powers of jurisdiction over diverse economic activities, the World Trade Organisation(WTO) has become a natural focus for livelihood