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Dancing in the dark

A LONG-STANDING mystery about how bees -- considered completely deaf -- hear has been solved. Bees are known to convey information about the distance, direction and potential of a new food source or

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Beef loses flavour

PAKISTANIS are cutting down on eating beef and are moving towards chicken. Although chicken was previously considered a luxury dish, the growth of the poultry industry has led to a major slash in

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No digging

An ambitious masterplan to tackle Bombay's perennial water-logging problem during its ferocious monsoons will use an innovative, sub-surface "no dig" technology. The new system, part of a Rs

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Epidemic resurfaces

MORE THAN 40 people have died of kala-azar and 120-odd people have been infected in Mahottari district of Nepal, close to the Indo-Nepal border, reports Jan Sarma for Panos Features. A shortage of

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US lifts embargo

The United States has finally conceded India's right to reprocess spent fuel from the Tarapore Atomic Power Station (TAPS). An indication to this effect came recently when the International Atomic

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Waste power

RECENT research in Indonesia has revealed that urban waste and bagasse from sugar cane can be used to generate electricity, reports Dewi Sartika for Panos Features. This would also help solve the

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Lost identities

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27/02/1994

A senior scientist has lambasted the procedure used to identify and release seed varieties to farmers across the country. The director of the Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute

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Safety undermined

A recent disaster that claimed 55 lives revealed the abysmal safety standards of India's mines.

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Subterranean subterfuge

Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.

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Fire sparks controversy

The huge forest fire that swept New South Wales smoked out into the open a debate over the government's weak fire fighting strategy.

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