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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Encroachments in Thatkola
Despite a Supreme Court order to evict in the Thatkola reserve forest in Karnataka's Chickmangalur district, the state government has done little to recover the
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Keeping a watch on our institutions
A recent report brought out by two independent agencies assesses the contribution of some major democratic institutions to promoting social and economic development. However, a new "Citizen's Report
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Live from Chennai
For the first time ever, two complex surgical procedures done in Chennai are presented live to a global audience. On May 22, over 2,000 interventional cardiology professionals from all over the world
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Fighting the Army, for farm land
At Okara in Pakistan's Punjab province, a peaceful movement by peasants, frustrates the Army's attempts, often violent, to assume ownership of the land they
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Developing resistance
A joint text on agricultural trade reflecting a new spirit of concord between the United States and the European Union evokes a counter-offensive from developing
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Skewed priorities
The draft document on Reproductive Health and Family Planning, prepared by the Department of Family Welfare, focusses only on family planning and ignores the large issues of reproductive and child
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Cultivating diversity
There is an urgent need to accord recognition to the traditional wisdom of farmers who persist with retaining biodiversity in agricultural practices in the face of the aggressive promotion of
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Ravaged by a river
Malda district in West Bengal has lost huge swathes of land to the fury of the Ganga, and thousands of families have been deprived of their homes and
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From debt to death
Crop losses caused by three successive years of inadequate rainfall and the diminishing presence of institutional credit force a large number of Karnataka farmers into the debt trap. Some of them