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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Hard Grind For Construction Workers
Adil's name did not figure on the muster roll. So nobody cared to retrieve his body after he was buried alive along with five other construction labourers while excavating a tanker-pit for a gasoline station in south India.SCIENCE-INDIA: Scientists Follow Up Budapest Declaration of UNESCO
Despite India's scientific leaps that are globally acknowledged, technology has not been able to meet the basic living needs of the vast majority of people, scientists attending the 'National Science Summit' here said.WILDLIFE-INDIA: Tiger Conservation Puts Smaller Mammals At Peril //REPEATING//
At last count there were only 40 members of an endangered family of bats that are in urgent need of attention but ignored by the preoccupation with tigers and elephants of India's conservationists.QPeri
At last count there were only 40 members of an endangered family of bats that are in urgent need of attention but ignored by the preoccupation with tigers and elephants of India's conservationists.DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Tribal Success Story in Southern Hills
Twenty nine-year-old Periachami or 'big god' in Tamil, one of southern India's four major languages, stands abashedly aside, holding his little son in his arms, while his wife, Soundarya (beauty), is nonplussed by the attention.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Naval Base Grounded By Fisherfolk and Farmers
The Indian Navy's multi-billion dollar plan to build the most sophisticated integrated base in South and East Asia has been stalled for 13 years by opposition from displaced local fisherfolk and farmers.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: A Battle Lost, But Two Points Won
Last year on Mar 14, a frail, 60-year-old woman called Kusuma Sorab from this southern Indian town, got off a bus at night and was hit by a speeding, oncoming bus as she crossed the road. She died instantaneously.ENVIRONMENT: Millions of Urban Indian Children Exposed To Lead
Developing countries like India need to take stringent action to reduce the high level of lead in the atmosphere which is poisoning children in the cities, experts said at an international conference in this southern city.SCIENCE: UNESCO’s Upcoming Summit To Pursue Social Equity Goal
UNESCO needs a programme that will protect and promote indigenous knowledge systems in science in the new millennium, scientists and scholars from 10 UNESCO member countries recommended at a conference in this Indian city.TIBET: Dalai Lama Says Tibetan Culture Safer In India
Tibet's distinct culture and centuries of Buddhist learning are better preserved in India than inside Tibet, the Dalai Lama, spiritual head of Tibetans worldwide, believes.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-AGRICULTURE: India Defends Genetic Plant Trials
The Indian government has rushed to the defence of the transnational corporation Monsanto - which is under fire from prtesting farmers' over the trial planting of genetically-modified cotton.« Previous Page
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