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FAO

Famine stares Africa in the face. And this time the situation is particularly bad because donor nations have severely slashed their aid programmes, says a special report prepared by the United

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BRAZIL

The Brazilian government has come down heavily on the Kayapo Indians, an Amazonian tribe. The Kayapoes are "mining" mahogany from the reserve forests in northern Brazil and wreaking havoc on

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UNITED NATIONS

In a fresh initiative against the menace of AIDS, the UN has launched a new US $140 million programme - the United Nations Programme on AIDS. It will brin4 together 6 preinier UN agencies to7

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Plastic policies

PLASTIC, the bane of environmentalists worldwide, is on an upward swing in India. By 2000 AD, the per capita consumption level of plastic in the country is expected to go up to 2.5 kg from

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Cosmic advances

WITH the successful testfiring of the liquid engine to be used at the strap-on-stage of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), yet another milestone has been reached by

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The blacking out of Enron

How serious was the Maharashtra chief minister when he mentioned environment as a reason for scrapping the gas based Enron project?

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New light on black holes

Researchers almost catch a glimpse of the ravenous vortexes in the Universe which don't even let light escape their gravitational grip

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Damned bodyblow

The proposed Rathong Chu dam in Sikkim is a potential threat to the state"s environment

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Forest rights

Adivasis draft an alternative forest bill and a rehabilitation policy to safeguard India's forests

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Constant inconsistency

Sharper limits set on how much quantities so far considered to have a fixed value can vary

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