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| • A new measure of poverty |
| By Darryl D'Monte On the 20th anniversary of the Human Development Report, Oxford University and UNDP are bringing out a... |
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| • World fails to meet 2010 biodiversity target |
| Nearly a quarter of endangered plant species are threatened with extinction, natural habitats continue to vanish, and waterbodies to be... |
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| • Communal, sectarian, neo-conservative: Is this the new Kerala? |
| Is Kerala’s famed cosmopolitan ethos breaking down? With increasing incidents such as the severing of the hand of a Kerala... |
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| • Beyond the Khushboo case |
| The Supreme Court judgment quashing all criminal cases of obscenity against Khushboo is a welcome blow against hypocritical morality masquerading... |
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| • After the RTE Act, the focus is on quality of education |
| By Mini Shrinivasan (http://www.infochangeindia.org/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=6582 Itemid=94#mini)The government’s film, School Chale Hum, shows children all over... |
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| • Practical solutions for child malnutrition |
| By Shreya Sanghani With half of India’s under-5 children malnourished, it isn’t enough to tell parents to feed their... |
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| • Did Mumbai learn nothing from 2005? |
| By Kalpana Sharma Although the realisation that Mumbai’s mangroves have to be preserved has sunk in after... |
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| • The riddle of representation: Issues in the caste census debate |
| For close to a century veils have been drawn over the backwardness of the Dalits and OBCs. It is time... |
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| • TB champions |
| By Ranjit Monga It’s easy to blame the media for its disinterest in covering issues such as tuberculosis, which... |
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| • Global double standards: BP oil spill vs Bhopal gas tragedy |
| Indian commentators have highlighted the contrast between the US response to the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,... |
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| • Hope for domestic workers? |
| By Kathyayini Chamaraj Karnataka was the first to notify minimum wages and working conditions for domestic labour. But in the... |
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| • The corrupt doctor |
| Following the arrest of the president of the Medical Council of India for accepting a bribe to recognise a... |
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| • Tamil Nadu pioneers easy cervical cancer screening |
| By B Jayashree Cervical cancer affects millions in India. It can be effectively treated if diagnosed early. Now, the VIA/VILI... |
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| • Who didn’t help Carbide? |
| ‘Who let Warren Anderson go?’ is the wrong question; the right question is ‘Who didn’t let Warren Anderson go?’ writes... |
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