Cross Hairs - October 31, 2014

Election 2014 - updates

Forest, forest, burning bright

It’s time Indian policy makers had a nuanced understanding of forest fires

Gang of bullies

Report>> Internet Freedom • Virtual World

Utopia ruined

Internet>> CONTRABAND TRADE • The Netherlands

Silencing dissent

Reddit>> Climate Change

Laughing gas

COMMENTARY>>SMOG ÔÇó China

I cycle and I don’t need your sympathy

I take offence to those snotty looks from you on the road as if my vehicle is not legit

A commercial bane

Wikipedia>> PR • Virtual world

His country still

National Anthem>> Gender • Canada

Nervous about gays

Website>> Queer People • Pakistan

Spiderman style protest

Protest>> SHELL • The UK

Greek tragedy

TV>> ECONOMIC CRISIS • Greece

Loneliness of Narmada Human

Thirty years on, it remains the only fossil of early humans found on the subcontinent

Fukushima to food

Food Fair>> Nuclear Disaster • Singapore/Japan

Life crashed into Earth?

Researchers provide evidence that rocks may have carried microbes across planets

A worthy goal

Soccer>> Homeless • Mexico

Bribery live

Smartphone>> Bribes • Russia

Art attack

Art>> Teaching • Swaziland

Honeytrap

Chemical lures mosquitoes towards insecticides

Lab on a printout

Adhesive modifies regular paper into diagnostic test kit

Make way for Indian probiotics

Scientists root for probiotics containing indigenous bacteria

Green way to recycle paper

Bacterial enzymes can replace chemicals in recycling

Towards a global anti-poverty convention

Sands of controversy

Africa had several tense moments before it could get the desertification convention through