Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto on Harsh Vardhan's TB campaign

Cross Hairs - October 31, 2014

Court orders on Uttarakhand

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

Chlor-alkali’s acid test

The Centre for Science and Environment’s Green Rating Project assesses the trade

Timed to perfection

Same plants fruit at different times in different regions, as per local monsoon

Science and Technology - Briefs

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

Letters

Tribal maladministration

Tribal Development Administration C P Singh Mittal Publications Rs.280

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

Sanitise and rule

How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba

Timber and West African civil wars

A dictator and a timber dealer fomented West Africa's civil wars

Rs 16 lakh crore

This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is close to government's annual budget

Celebrating Documentaries

Online>> http://topdocumentaryfilms.com

Not just a nightly ritual

Book>> The Secret Life Of Sleep • by Kat Duff • Simon Schuster • Rs 1,050

Media was always social

Book>> Writing On The Wall • By Tom Standage • Bloomsbury Press • Rs 1,590

Nutrient overdose

Population burst has increased the amount of nutrients released into the atmosphere through human activity. Varun Varma, a PhD student at the …