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Education on their backs

For mysterious motives, the Central government has rejected proposals to lighten the killing load that children have to carry to be educated

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30/07/1994
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Talking of solar power

The Social Work Research Centre (SWRC), a voluntary agency based in Tilonia, Rajasthan, has stolen a march over the government by installing the country's first solar-powered Rural Automatic

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14/07/1994
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In their disposable cups

WHILE greens have been carping themselves hoarse against the "throwaway" culture, a scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada has calculated that disposable cups -- polystyrene or paper --

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14/07/1994
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Cleaning up the coastline

The hue and cry raised by environmentalists about the Puri beach, castigated by the Central Pollution Control Board as one of the most polluted in India, has finally forced the Orissa government to

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14/07/1994
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Eco assessment without the people

In January this year, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) had, with much fanfare, introduced a clause in the Environmental Impact Assessment notification by which feasibility reports

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14/07/1994
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Polluting in style

Even as the manufacturers of the Contessa Classic automobile claim that it is the symbol of upwardly mobile Indians, a traffic pollution study conducted by the Centre for Science and Technology (CST)

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14/07/1994
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Mines to quench thirst

Plans are afoot to convert the Bhatti stone mines south of Delhi into a major drinking water source for the water-starved Capital. The gigantic stone mine pits, which were closed last year after

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14/07/1994
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If this is emancipation...

...critics of the government's recent draft on women's issues would rather not have it

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14/07/1994
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Fishy business

The US policy to restrict tuna imports hampers free trade, says the GATT panel report

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14/07/1994
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Rice goes against the grain

An Asian staple for over a millennium, rice has become important enough for the North to start raiding and patenting strains

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14/07/1994
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