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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Dealing with GM plants
India's capacity to deal with the problems associated with genetically modified plants is limited by the shortcomings in the structure of the relevant law, financial and institutional constraints and
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Mapping human development
The first Human Development Report of India, released recently, brings to light inter-state disparities and variations and the gap in development between urban and rural
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War on pollution
The Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation is constructing 14 Common Effluent Treatment Plants in the 28 industrial areas to ensure that the discharge from industrial units into the Yamuna is
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Female foeticide in Punjab
The menace of female foeticide has been particularly alarming in Punjab and Haryana despite the prosperity and high per capita income levels that prevail in those states. A consultation on the
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A virus lives on
The World Health Assembly decides to retain existing stocks of the smallpox virus for continued research into new vaccines, without setting a future date for their destruction. The decision to retain
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Climate and contradictions
While 85 per cent of all man-made GHG emissions are made by the developed countries, the developing world needs to increase its emission levels to achieve economic growth and reduce poverty. This
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Profits over people
The "World Food Summit: 5 years later" which concluded in Rome on June 13 was supposed to address the most important human rights violation of our time - the denial of the right to food to millions.
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Engineered risks
The controversial decision by the Government of India's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), on March 26, 2002, to grant approval for the commercial release of genetically modified Bt
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Resistance to anti-malaria drugs
While the number of effective drugs available to control malaria is small, the rapid emergence of drug-resistant strains of the malarial parasites is outpacing the developing of new antimalarials.
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A controversial eviction drive
The Assam government's move, as mandated by a Supreme Court order, to evict those who have encroached on forest land raises some green hopes but kicks up much