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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The teak trail
When the fence starts eating the field, the fate of the crop can well be predicted, goes a Bundelkhandi saying. Several environmentalists in the state believe the analogy could apply to Ratnesh
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Wanted a pied piper
Farmers of Gwalior kill at least 20 rodents every night, to no avail, their crop is destroyed.
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Engineering colours
Indian scientists develop an array of naturally hued cotton.
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Viagra Confessions
Years ago a sexologist from Bangalore visited the Niagara Falls during a training at Masters and Johnson Institution. This July he had another exciting experience. He took Viagra, the sextasy pill,
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- How green are the Ghats?
Ten years after a historical 100-day march, a small group of environmentalists and green campaigners met recently in Goa's Ponda taluk to take stock . The outlook was anything but heartening. They
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One shot therapy
Doctors at the University of Minnesota in the US plan to begin tests this summer of a new form of gene therapy im people with
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Colours clean
Indian Air Force hospital in Bangalore shows the way in waste management. The hospital is the country's first to implement a WHO-aided waste management project. Waste is sorted out at the point of
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Trial & Error
It has been a trial by fire for the Thiruvananthapuram-based Regional Cancer Centre for the past few weeks. Long accustomed to being hailed as a premier cancer research institute, it isn't quite used
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A mass policy
Insurance schemes designed to benefit the entire population seem to be catching on in a big way. Two years ago, Jalgaon and Shirpur created history when the towns insured the voting population
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Seeds of trouble
As winter sets in, there is nothing more pleasant than a drive from Modasa to Malpur in north Gujarat, a land which in cotton plantations -where white balls shimmer in a green expanse.After two