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Developing politics: Election 2004 is not the end
Elections always teach lessons. The outcome of the 2004 polls is still a few days away but we have already learnt from media reports that the water scarcity has left a countrywide imprint. The crying
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Weaving votes
Needling shawl makers, and an antelope
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If projects are for people
Then why are their voices being muffled?
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'We see ourselves as a bridge between the EU and the US'
From climate change to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the UK is at the centre of intense global debate on these issues. Clifford Polycarp and TV Jayan spoke with Elliot Morley, UK"s minister of state for environment and agri-environment, during hi
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Withdrawal symptom
A malaise called non regulation
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8 sister states
And a step fatherly Centre
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The digital divide is also about a divide in the mindset
SAM PITRODA, regarded by many as the father of India s telecom revolution, was in India recently for the Fourth Annual Baramati Initiative on ICT and Development. KUSHAL P S YADAV caught up with him
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An ad a day will keep voters away
How bizarre can a government policy decision get? India s first national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for people affected by development projects was declared through a one page advertisement, even though the detailed policy paper isn t ready
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Sounds of self-interested silence
I write this to provoke, not to insult. It is increasingly important to understand that in the modern world, the term sound science is becoming the choicest of insults. Science is a passive
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Psychosocial care should be a component of overall health care
K SEKAR, assistant professor, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS , Bangalore, talks to NEELAM SINGH about psychosocial distress among survivors of the Latur and Osmanabad earthquake ten years since the tragedy, and the role of
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If bird flu arrives, what will India do?
India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown fevers erupt in all parts of the country, and the New Delhi based National Institute of Communicable Diseases NICD
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Mother of all management
THE UNION minister for human resource development s election eve decision to slash Indian Institute of Management IIM fees by a third has created a storm. The most vocal lot are the faculty and management of the premier schools, and industry captains, w
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Why liquidate our future?
Who does the water under the ground belong to? Who has the right to exploit it? Are there limits on what can be extracted? Till three months ago, the answers to such questions were simple.
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India shining meets Hindutva
Uma Bharti is getting serious. The newly elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh MP has unleashed a development agenda built around the cow family , a literal translation of the Hindi term gauvansh, which simply means cattle. Cow slaughter cattle sla
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Reach the last person
Will that crippling scourge called polio be wiped out from the face of the earth by the end of this year? The World Health Organization WHO hopes so. But all its ambitions and that of the six governments it is working in tandem with will go to nough
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Democracy must be worked at
The Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC was set up to investigate the issue of pesticides in cold drinks, and everyone told us that we had reached a dead end. Parliamentarians aren t interested,
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A new manifesto
FRANCIS WURTZ, president of the Paris based European United Left party, is certain that ecology is emerging as a political ideology on the left. Attending the World Parliamentary Forum, held along with the World Social Forum WSF in Mumbai, he spoke to R
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"We need to think about all of us as being citizens of the same world"
Joseph E Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics the Economics of Information. This earned him the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. He was also chief economist at the World Bank and a cabinet member of the Clinton administration. He is the au
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A toy called CRZ
The original coastal regulation zone CRZ rules passed in February 1991 had seven sections. They have been amended nearly twice that many times in the past decade, and the government, if recent evidence is to be believed, is still interested in flogging