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BRICS Summit: A Lot of Hot Air, Some Significant Steps – Vijay Prashad
- April 1, 2012
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The governments of the five large countries of the Global South, the BRICS states, met in New Delhi this week for their fourth summit. These five countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are home to forty per cent of the world’s peoples, and their share of the world’s Gross Domestic Product is now just over twenty-five per cent. [...]
Nuclear Security Summit National Progress Report India
- April 1, 2012
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1) International Legal Instruments: India is party to all the 13 universal instruments accepted as benchmarks for a State’s commitment to combat international terrorism. India is party to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and is amongst the few countries which have also ratified the 2005 amendment to the Convention. India looks forward to early entry into [...]
76 percent RTE violations remain unresolved (April 1 marks two years of the Right to Education Act) – Azera Parveen Rahman
- April 1, 2012
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Two years after the government’s flagship education programme came into force, its monitoring body has not been able to resolve as much as 76 percent cases of violation of the right to education (RTE) Act, a right to information (RTI) document reveals. Promising free and compulsory education to children from the age group of 6 to 14, the Right of [...]
Behind the scenes: India shaped BRICS position on West Asia, Afghanistan – Manish Chand
- April 1, 2012
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Amid differing perceptions, India played a crucial role in shaping the collective stance of the BRICS countries on the need for dialogue to resolve the festering crisis in West Asia and to push continued regional and international cooperation in stabilising Afghanistan. The Delhi Declaration at the end of the fourth BRICS summit of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa [...]
Ten Specific Issues To Overcome Growth Barriers – manmohan singh
- April 1, 2012
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The global situation facing us today presents a mixed picture. On the one hand, emerging market economies are growing at a healthy pace and increasing their share in global trade and output. On the other hand, many obstacles have to be overcome if we are to sustain rapid growth in the years ahead. We are all affected by the global [...]
The dangerous implications of India’s nuclear romance – B.R.P. Bhaskar
- April 1, 2012
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Efforts are on to squelch the months-long peaceful movement by villagers living in the neighbourhood of the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu which has delayed its commissioning. What brought the people out of their homes is the fear that the plant is a threat to their lives and livelihood. Repeated assertions by spokesmen of the national science and technology [...]
Your child’s milk tooth can save her life – Azera Parveen Rahman
- March 31, 2012
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Is your child about to lose her milk tooth? Instead of throwing it away, you can now opt to use it to harvest stem cells in a dental stem cell bank for future use in the face of serious ailments. Now that’s a tooth fairy story coming to life. Still relatively new in India, dental stem cell banking is fast [...]
Connecting and caring: innovations for healthy ageing
- March 31, 2012
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Restricted mobility and social isolation do not have to go hand in hand with getting old. Monique Tsang reports on the potential of innovative technologies to help maintain the physical health and independence of older people. For 69-year-old “Grandma” Cheung, age is no barrier to learning. Every Wednesday she attends a computer class at her neighbourhood centre for senior citizens [...]
Deriving Energy from Waste
- March 31, 2012
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Urbanization and industrialization- the two facets of development are becoming the cornerstone of all developing countries and much the same is true for India. Though the two sound encouraging, but bring in the problem of enormous generation of wastes. In fact, the problem is gaining greater currency as these wastes are becoming sources of pollution. Most wastes that are generated find their [...]
Hydrogen : Energy Of The Future
- March 31, 2012
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Hydrogen – a colourless, odourless gas is increasingly gaining attention as a future source of energy free from environmental pollution. Its new use has been found in the automobile and power generation sector. The biggest advantage with hydrogen is that it has the highest energy content per unit mass among known fuels and it burns to produce water as a by-product. [...]
Tibetan self immolations: Why isn’t the world listening? – Vijay Kranti
- March 31, 2012
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Until he became a burning sensation in the international media, the story of Jamphel Yeshi, 27, was no different from the few million Tibetans who live today in what Chinese leaders call a Socialist Haven or China’s Tibet. He was one of those 10,000 odd young Tibetans who could smuggle themselves out of Tibet in recent years in search of [...]
Your popular snack could be making you ill: Study – Imran Khan
- March 31, 2012
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Most junk foods, including your favourite brand of noodles, burgers and aloo bhujia, contain very high levels of trans fats, salt and sugar, which inevitably leads to severe ill health and diseases like obesity and diabetes in young people in India, according to a study by the Centre For Science and Environment. “The younger generation, hooked to junk food, are [...]
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