Hot water; hotter tempers
On April 10, a hot sunny day, Chennai’s Chepauk stadium became a fortress. Yellow barricades, armed policemen and security vans surrounded the venue. The Indian Premier League was in town, and the Chennai
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Water poisoning
Childhood lost in fatigue and pain. This is the plight of several children in Kuklaha Tola village in Seoni. According to a survey by the public health engineering deoartment, 29 0f 61 students in
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The 20-year resistance
Tadvi is a
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Pride falls
Earlier this year when the Gujarat forest department announced that the count of the Asiatic Lion in Gir, its only abode in the world, had touched an all-time high of 359, wildlife experts were
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Sprinkling water
Force is what Jyoti Sharma, an IIM-Bangalore alumni, has in abundance to drive home the message of rainwater harvesting. The Forum for Organised Resource Conservation and Enhanvement (FORCE) -
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Harvest of troubles
Jaipur heaved a sigh or relief as the farmers withdrew their agitation demanding a reduction in power tariff, which was hiked by 30 per cent recently. For eight days from September 1, over 50,000
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Hidden facts
Every year, before monsoons, the spectre resurrects, grabs headlines and is buried in a few months. Malnutrition deaths of children in Maharashtra first made news a decade ago. Since then, committees have been appointed, schemes have been announced
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The great wall of Kalda
A stone structure that changed the lives of people. The 19-km wall around Saktara and Dharampura villages in Panna district has worked wonders for the people there. The six-foot-high, three-foot-wide
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Saving children
Twenty-seven villages on the Kalda plateaub of Panna, one of the most backward distridts of the country, have no roads, no water, no electricity, no hospitals - but there are schools everywhere.
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Paying the price
Environmental pollution causes high incidence of cancer in three Kerala villages on Vembanad Lake. The still waters of Vembanad Lake in Kerala's Alappuzha district really run deep. The picture
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The great diamond loot
Sparklers worth about Rs 12 crore are being smuggled out of Panna every year by the unorganised sector. While 1,339 shallow mines were given licences this year, over 3,000 illegal mines flourish in