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Clampdown on Vedanta
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Clampdown on Vedanta

Union Environment Ministry has rejected a plan by mining giant Vedanta Resources to mine bauxite in Orissa, saying it violated forest laws. Latha Jishnu tracks how the clampdown came about and its affect.

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Chhattisgarh's Industrial Jungle

As Chhattisgarh advances to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron, Sugandh Juneja finds out what affect this fast-paced industrialisation will have on the state and its people.

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Desperate for Expressway

Uttar Pradesh government will soon begin work on its ambitious Upper Ganga Canal project. Jyotika Sood reveals how the government is ignoring environmental concerns and offering sops to builders.

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Chhattisgarh's Industrial Jungle

The rich green fields of Darramuda village in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh were almost peaceful. A JCB backhoe loader whirred on as it dug in and pulled out lumps of wet brown earth.

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Vedanta and lessons in conservation

The Forest Rights Act of 2006—also known as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act—came after considerable and bitter opposition from conservation groups.

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The new banana republic

If India is a growing economic power why is it so eager to put the interests of foreign businesses first?

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The madness of software patents

India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted

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Clampdown on Vedanta

Alumina refinery’s illegal expansion under scanner

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Superbug: India gets bugged

Government downplays threat from drug-resistant bacteria

Fresh row over nuclear bill

Suppliers let off the hook in the final draft

Buffer for Jarawas

Private tourism to be banned

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Tribals won’t budge

Demand rights over national park in Borivali

Loharinag Pala project axed

GoM gives in to public pressure

Call to ground airport plan

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A fungus could wipe out American bats

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Scientists devise genetically tweaked rats to study cancer

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Indian scientists design a bike engine that runs on air

An ocean of wealth

The first census of marine species

Light pollution spreads diseases

It is difficult to comprehend modern life sans nighttime light. But the amenity comes at a price. Bruno A S De Medeiros and Alessandro Barghini at University of Sao Paulo in Brazil recently found that light pollution encourages the spread of infectious diseases. The biologist duo share their finding, published in Environmental Health Perspectives on August 1, in an email interview with Salonie Chawla

Nature’s mosquito repellent

Predator chemicals can prevent mosquitoes from breeding

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Forest alert

Saxena panel report on Niyamgiri puts states under watch for forest, tribal rights violations

Desperate for Expressway

Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind eye to environmental concerns and risking the 155-year-old canal

Warning from Leh

Leh cloudburst is unusual, say scientists. Such extreme events are rising. What’s wrong?

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Amul takes hygiene a step forward

At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, told BHARAT LAL SETH about an initiative to build toilets

I learned the language without references

Pramod Kumar researches a language spoken by only 273 people in the Andaman islands. A PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, he spoke to Sumana Narayanan about the Jarawa community and its language. Excerpts

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Planting trees is not doing your bit

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Press for profit

In an 1895 lecture at England’s Royal Society, historian John Dalberg Dalton lauded the democratic impact of the printing press.

Local smorgasbord

During the Great Depression, US Works Progress Administration hit upon a novel way to find employment for out-ofwork scribes and writers.

The icons of physics

Physicist Richard Feynman once said, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you probably don’t.”

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The changing weather

Scientists at the Australian Academy of Sciences have issued a statement on dangers of global warming.

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A dramatic frontpage splash has turned into a nationwide debate on press freedom in Venezuela.

Foxed

In early August, a grainy footage of four masked men drugging a fox and later beating it to death with cricket bats in a London park posted on YouTube and Facebook sparked media outrage.

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Words of the times

What is common to vuvuzela and carbon capture? The monotone drone heard during the football World Cup and the technique to check climate change are new additions to Oxford Dictionary.

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