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Rajive Jain Centre for Development of International Technology D1 Soami Nagar New Delhi 110 017 Tel: 643 4989, 634 9692 N D Jayal Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 71 Lodi

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Main Topic: 
Energy
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Filing an environmental audit

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Publication Date: 
14/05/1994

A CPCB official on the various tasks an environmental audit entail

Main Topic: 
India
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
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Where did Homo erectus first appear?

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00

The antedating of two fossils of Homo erectus our immediate ancestors has shaken a long held belief that humans originated in Africa

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
thesaurus: 
Science And Technology
Fossils
Africa
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Main Topic: 
India
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When the fish begin to die

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00
Publication Date: 
14/05/1994

The construction of breakwaters and jetties and the coming up of industries have led to declining fish catch for the Ratnagiri fisherfolk

Main Topic: 
Health
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
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Checking gold fever

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00

Brazil develops a cheap device to increase gold yield and control mercury pollution in the devastated Amazon basin

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
thesaurus: 
Pollution Control
Gold
Amazon
Brazil
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Main Topic: 
Climate Change
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A world of robots

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00
Publication Date: 
14/05/1994

An Indian schoolstudent recently won the silver at a robotics competition, and brought home the fact that robots are here to stay, for better or for worse

Main Topic: 
India
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
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Grounded contraband

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00

A MAJOR bird-smuggling racket was literally uncovered on the tarmac of New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Just before four "abnormal" packages wrapped in gunny were loaded on to a

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
thesaurus: 
Birds
Wildlife Trade
India
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Main Topic: 
India
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Cold start

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00

A Russian scientist claims to have found evidence that predates by at least a factor of 10 the human colonisation of Siberia

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
Main Topic: 
Fisheries
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Dishonest dealings

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Publication Date: 
14/05/1994

The Maharashtra state government has been accused of skulduggery in trying to promote some industries

Main Topic: 
Health
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth
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In South Asia

Submitted by ipsita on Sun, 1994-05-15 00:00

The price of power THE Arun III controversy continues to dog Nepal, reports Jan Sharma from Kathmandu. In an uncanny coincidence, just as loan negotiations for the construction of the Arun III

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Main Topic: 
Environment
thesaurus: 
Wetlands
Sri Lanka
Name of the Newspaper: 
Down To Earth

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