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South Asian Development News
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| Investment Terror |
Poor countries are finding that footloose investments are cutting access to water, damaging public health and the environment, and endangering ethnic communities.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Jan 31, 2012)
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| Tibetan Women Protect their Habitat |
As a grassroots organisation, the Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), too, has been focusing its efforts to help those who have been affected by the drastic changes in the Tibetan habitat over the past 75 years.
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Source: OneWorld,
Posted: Jan 31, 2012)
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| Tree of Life Festival Raises Environment Consciousness |
Prakriti Foundation's “Tree of Life” festival had the city of Chennai buzzing with activities promoting the cause of the environment.
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Source: The Hindu,
Posted: Jan 31, 2012)
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| Building the Transit Metropolis |
As the most significant region yet to be urbanised, India presents a unique opportunity for capturing impacts of urbanisation on the spatial dimension.
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Source: IndiaTogether,
Posted: Jan 30, 2012)
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| India's Culture of Conservation |
A look at the brief history of conservation in India, from the administration of Emperor Ashoka to official policy and community conservation in contemporary India.
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Source: InfoChange,
Posted: Jan 25, 2012)
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| Talking Politics in Post-war Sri Lanka |
Women in Sri Lanka find it difficult to contest elections despite high literacy rates and robust social indicators.
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Source: OneWorld,
Posted: Jan 25, 2012)
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| Weed Stories |
The truth is that weeds are not always bad. Actually, they can help improve the environment. India has some of the most amazing examples of this.
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Source: GobarTimes,
Posted: Jan 25, 2012)
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| Solution to Dam Impasse? |
As the impasse over Mullaperiyar dam continues in South India, a former chief engineer opines that the best way is to maintain status-quo and install smaller storage structures within the dam’s catchment area.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Jan 25, 2012)
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| Mountains of Marble Waste |
More than 1,500 marble mines are operating in the Aravallis in Rajasthan, destroying the the hills and ecology, depleting groundwater and leaving waste and slurry on pasturelands and riverbanks.
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Source: InfoChange,
Posted: Jan 18, 2012)
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| 'Tulsi' to be Used for Anti-radiation Medicine |
Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India have developed a tulsi-based herbal medicine for treating people exposed to radiations. The medicine is already in the second phase of trials.
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Source: TimesofIndia,
Posted: Jan 18, 2012)
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| Chinese Aid to Boost Nepal's Infrastructure |
China has offered $119 mn in aid to Nepal to bosst infrastructure.
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Source: OneWorld,
Posted: Jan 17, 2012)
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| Most Indians Drinking Adulterated Milk, Finds Survey |
70 per cent milk samples collected across the country by food safety authority did not conform to standards.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Jan 17, 2012)
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| USAID Promotes Monsanto Seeds in Nepal |
If an organization like USAID wants to help us with a company like Monsanto, we would hope that they would help us to actually develop our own hybrids instead, not to import their foreign seeds say Nepalese farmers.
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Source: IRIN,
Posted: Jan 11, 2012)
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| Eat, Play, Learn |
Sixty-days camps for tribal children in India's western state of Rajasthan offer education, food and sanitation to impoverished kids.
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Source: OneWorld,
Posted: Jan 11, 2012)
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| 2012: A Year for Transformation? |
2012 has been predicted by many cultures as landmark for massive transformations.
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Source: InfoChange,
Posted: Jan 11, 2012)
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| Indian AIDS Agency Orders Cheap Drug |
The drug Stavudine disfigures, affects peripheral nervous system permanently and is being phased out worldwide.
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Source: DownToEarth,
Posted: Jan 10, 2012)
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| Island Women Find Freedom from Four Walls |
In Mahinsa, an island village on Chilika Lake, Orissa, India, new collective livelihood and self-help groups have encouraged women to venture out.
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Source: InfoChange,
Posted: Jan 6, 2012)
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| Adding Millets to the Basket |
To improve food security and to bring extensive lands now left fallow into cultivation again, the government must support millets just as it supports rice and wheat.
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Source: IndiaTogether,
Posted: Jan 3, 2012)
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| Burma Reduces Prison Sentences |
Burma's government has announced widespread reductions in prison sentences, but there was no mention of the fate of political detainees.
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Source: BBC,
Posted: Jan 3, 2012)
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| Keeping Tribal Literature Alive |
Ramnika Gupta of Jharkhand, India is a chronicler of marginal cultures. She has scoured the country to document the wonderful diversity of tribal literature that goes back 3,000 years, told in 90 known tribal languages in India.
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Source: InfoChangeIndia,
Posted: Jan 3, 2012)
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