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Arecent visit to Arunachal Pradesh was educative as it was frustrating Large tracts of the state are not yet covered by roads, with policy planners considers It a waste of precious resources to connect small hamlets and villages-where only 200-300 people is the kind of economic calculation made by those who believe road links should be economically viable and not a social agenda. And people have not choice. They are voiceless, faceless entity that come alive once is five years. Some bright souls even suggest that the inhabitants of those smaller villages relocate “in the way that Mizoram did in the 70s and ‘80s and thereby get their development package.” Nobody cares to analysis the implications of such forced regrouping if villages. Coming as this did in the wake of insurgency. Talk to any Mizo elder and he/she will aver that much of the corruption that besets society today is a result of the uprooting of people from their traditional livelihoods and recasting their futures and their occupations....
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Sunday,26 April, 2009 | Hits: 78
AS WOMEN IN RAGGED saris of a thousand hues bake bread and stew lentils in the early evening over fires lentils in the early evening over fires fueled by twigs and dung, children cough from the dense smoke that fills their homes. Black grime coast the underside of thatched roofs. At down, a brown cloud stretches over the landscape like a diaphanous dirty blanket....
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Friday,24 April, 2009 | Hits: 92
Climate change To avoid temperature rises in the range of 2 C, the world can only burn another half a trillion tonnes of fuel, according to a new study. Meanwhile, an expert says the UK will “struggle” to meet its 2020 targets to source 15 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. ...
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Tuesday,05 May, 2009 | Hits: 74
Move over warming brigade, here at the realists –and they throw extensive data at you to say all threats of a climate collapse are hoax and our planet is actually cooling off instead of heating up. Our polar caps are thickening, our polar hears fighting a population explosion and our environment is in fine fettle. SHWETANK DUBEY report. ...
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Wednesday,13 May, 2009 | Hits: 86
The Kyoto protocol that set out international targets fro cutting carbon dioxide emissions was signed in 2001. It is going to run out in 2012. Countries are hopeful going to chalk a new deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, scheduled for December 7 to 18 this year. There was a preparatory conference in Bonn (March 29 to April 8). Here are some key issues being sorted out in the run-up to that significant sortie to ‘save the planet.”...
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Tuesday,05 May, 2009 | Hits: 81
What started with a cutting of the fountain palm has grown into a lush park. In the list of trees the Delhi has there are a few more entrants. The number might be miniscule but the planets are a treat for a gardener, a plant lover and a botanist.Chinar Park, near DDA Flats Kalkaji, has completed 17 years successfully. Ami Chand, the man behind this part this is full of uncommon species of plants, may have grown old but his enthusiasm to grow and nature more plants is still young....
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Wednesday,22 April, 2009 | Hits: 81
There is such mystery in how human society invents words, concepts and even real things such as money. There are two diametrically opposed methods in social science, and only one can be correct. The first, which is common, is to look upon society as a whole and then investigate the commands issued to it by The State. This is the method of central planners, and it is included in our school and college textbooks as “Indian economics”. In this approach, society is inert. Only the commands matter. Social scientists study these commands and, at best, come up with batter five-year plans....
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Wednesday,22 April, 2009 | Hits: 70
The United State hopes to take the reins of international efforts to battle global warming next week with a meeting of major economies aimed at facilitating UN pact to cut greenhouse gas emission.President Barack Obama, a Democrat who took office in January, called the meeting last month to out relaunch a process that began under his Republican predecessor, George W Bush, whose commitment to curbing climate change was viewed with skepticism by much of the world....
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Sunday,26 April, 2009 | Hits: 76
Science gets an exciting edge at special workshop across the city.Twelve –year-old Himanshu Sanger has never been more excited about the concept of magnetic levitation. A students if Evergreen Pubic School, Vasundhara Enclave, he had read about it in science book but it was during a radio and electronics class as National Bal Bhavan this week, that he finally started pondering over its details. After observing a repelling action between two magnetic rings, Sanger excitedly pointed out, “This happened because poles of the same charge had been put together. I will repeat the experiment at home and also so it to my friends. “Sanger’s class at National Bal Bhavan is among the several workshops in the city where children have fun translating their theoretical science lessons into practical experiments....
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Sunday,26 April, 2009 | Hits: 92
A filmmaker highlights the plight of the Himalayan glaciers. Seventy –five per cent of the world’s fresh water is stored in glaciers and scientists predict climate change will cause some of the largest glaciers to melt completely by 2030. What effect will this have on our daily lives? It was this question that drove Delhi –based documentary filmmaker Rohit Gandhi, 38, to trek to the glaciers of Northeast India and Gomukh in the Northern Himalayas last June. “Most of the glaciers have been severely demand and they will not last for more than 20-30 years,” says Gandhi. The trek fuelled his latest documentary, On Thin Ice, which explore population. The non-hour film premiered on PBS in the US on Monday, and Gandhai hopes for an all-India release later this summer....
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Thursday,23 April, 2009 | Hits: 76
