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Anti-GM activists appeal CMs to reject BRAI Bill
By d-sector Team | 21 Oct 2011


U.S. donates $56 million for HIV nutrition in Ethiopia
By d-sector Team | 12 Oct 2011


Inclusive Media Fellowships 2011 announced
By d-sector Team | 11 Oct 2011


The dark side of famine crisis in Somalia
By d-sector Team | 11 Oct 2011


Goa Speaker discards PAC report on mining scam
By d-sector Team | 07 Oct 2011


Aadhar to be linked to NREGS wages
By d-sector Team | 07 Oct 2011


Afghan women fear losing freedom
By d-sector Team | 03 Oct 2011


Definition of rape keeps US federal crime data low
By d-sector Team | 29 Sep 2011


Gender discrimination leads to malnourishment in Nepal
By d-sector Team | 28 Sep 2011


Issue ration and voter cards to sex workers: Supreme Court
By d-sector Team | 17 Sep 2011


Little known lung disease killing Canadians: Study
By d-sector Team | 11 Sep 2011


Melbourne most liveable city, Mumbai among the worst
By d-sector Team | 30 Aug 2011


India fails to improve child mortality rates
By d-sector Team | 30 Aug 2011


70 percent children below 5 are anemic
By d-sector Team | 30 Aug 2011


Skill development programme for J&K youth
By d-sector Team | 23 Aug 2011


Goldman Sachs' 10, 000 Women initiative comes to India
By d-sector Team | 23 Aug 2011


India needs 55 million more jobs by 2015: CRISIL
By d-sector Team | 18 Aug 2011


Activists demand National Development Planning Act
By d-sector Team | New Delhi | 03 Aug 2011


U.S. laws fail to protect native women
By d-sector Team | 28 Jul 2011


WHO proposes TB blood test ban
By d-sector Team | 25 Jul 2011


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Today we see more commitment to protect nature, but the understanding of the real and long term risks to environment is still poor. Many 'celebrity activists' get hyper on issues with little or temporary impact like use of fire-crackers on Diwali but feign ignorance of dangers of deforestation for 'development' projects or widespread mining in green areas. There is no dearth of 'green campaigners' who cry hoarse over occasional offering of flowers and ash to holy rivers, but never utter a word against tonnes of hazardous industrial waste released daily into water bodies and air. Such selective approach will not help environment, on the contrary it will create doubts in the minds of people about the real intentions of the activists.

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When villages fought over surplus water
By Dinesh Kumar Mishra
25 Oct 2011

The common understanding is that all water related conflicts arise because of its scarcity. But there have been instances in Bihar, when myopic engineering measures led to violent struggles among flood ..
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