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/ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT/ ART-ENVIRONMENT: Buy a Painting, Save a Rhino
At Christie's London, the world's leading auction house, it was an event with a difference. Celebrities, conservationists and collectors emerged in large numbers to witness the first ever 'Art for survival wildlife auction' staged by the David Shepherd Conservation Foundation last week.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-BRITAIN: Ethics Questions Over Eco- Documentaries
Film makers and broadcasters from 47 countries at the recent 'Wildscreen '98' - the world's largest festival of wildlife and conservation films - prompted some impassioned debate here between the north and south.CINEMA: Ethics Questions Over Eco-Documentaries
Film makers and broadcasters from 47 countries at the recent 'Wildscreen '98' - the world's largest festival of wildlife and conservation films - prompted some impassioned debate here between the north and south.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-INDIA: Beetle Transforms Tribal Lives
A weird-looking beetle has completely changed the lifestyles of thousands of central Indian tribals after it destroyed entire forests of the sal trees on which their livelihoods had depended.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Beetle Transforms Tribal Lives
A weird-looking beetle has completely changed the lifestyles of thousands of central Indian tribals after it destroyed entire forests of the sal trees on which their livelihoods had depended.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Experts Question Satellite Data On Forests
Environmentalists say depleting forest cover over India may have less to do with grazing and population pressure than with new policies linked to liberalisation.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Experts Question Satellite Data On Forests
Environmentalists say depleting forest cover over India may have less to do with grazing and population pressure than with new policies linked to liberalisation.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-INDIA: Time Running Out For The Tiger!
Every time, forest guards patrolling the vast Dudhwa National Park, in central India, spot a kill, they quickly alert the authorities who have the carcass removed.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Time Running Out for the Tiger!
Every time, forest guards patrolling the vast Dudhwa National Park, in central India, spot a kill, they quickly alert the authorities who have the carcass removed.INDIA-LABOUR: Women Labour for Less Under Free Market
It is women workers who have been hardest hit by the opening of the Indian economy and the restructuring in industry to make it more competitive.INDIA-LABOUR: Women Labour for Less Under Free Market
It is women workers who have been hardest hit by the opening of the Indian economy and the restructuring in industry to make it more competitive./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ INDIA: Ornithologists Turn Match- Makers
Dodging rockets in Afghanistan and poachers in Pakistan, three Siberian cranes -- India's most famous winged visitors -- touched down last November at their winter home here in the wetlands of Bharatpur.INDIA-ENVIRONMENT: Ornithologists Turn Match-Makers
Dodging rockets in Afghanistan and poachers in Pakistan, three Siberian cranes -- India's most famous winged visitors -- touched down last November at their winter home here in the wetlands of Bharatpur.ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Tiger Threatened, But not on Way Out
India's forests and wildlife reserves may no longer be a safe home for the tiger, but more than half the world's surviving big cats are found here.INDIA-HUMAN RIGHTS: Crimes against Women on the Rise
Just a year since the Fourth World Conference on Women in China, and there is an increase in sexual assaults on women in India, both in the rural and urban areas.TRAVEL-INDIA: Off the Beaten Track
There is only one temple in India where the Hindu god Rama is worshipped as a king.CULTURE-RELIGION: Shrine for All Seasons and Faiths
India today is a communal tinderbox. But in a resplendent shrine in this Western city, hundreds of thousands of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Parsees and other faiths worship quietly side by side.CULTURE-RELIGION: Shrine for All Seasons and Faiths
India today is a communal tinderbox. But in a resplendent shrine in this Western city, hundreds of thousands of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Parsees and other faiths worship quietly side by side./BULLETIN OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS 03/ INDIA: Centre For Hindu Pilgrimage Turns To Tourists For Salvation
Legend has it that Brahma, the Creator in the Hindu divine pantheon, let fall a lotus from his hand. At the place where it fell, originated the dusty western Indian town of Pushkar./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 03/INDIA: The Changing Face of a Tourist Town
Legend has it that Brahma, the Creator in the Hindu divine pantheon, let fall a lotus from his hand. At the place where it fell, originated the dusty western Indian town of Pushkar.INDIA-HEALTH: Forgotten Villagers Could be HIV Carriers
The insignificant little village of Bandar Sindari in western India lies just off the busy Delhi-Bombay Highway. It doesn't rate much more than a mention on any tourist map, but the dusty settlement just might be one of the major centres for spreading the deadly AIDS virus.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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