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SEX RATIO DROPS IN GOA
While the state boasts of many achievements on various fronts, it appeared to have been fighting a losing battle in maintaining a healthy male-female sex ratio, as the figures for the last three years indicate a big fall in the … Continue reading
India Racing To Buy an Untried Reactor?
India is slated to purchase up to six of these reactors, of which the first two alone carry an estimated price tag of €11 billion. A memorandum of understanding for the sale of two EPRs was signed in 2009 and … Continue reading
Carping At Cancun
The government’s offer at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Cancun – to submit India to international measurement, review and verification – makes for a welcome change after Japan’s decision last week not to extend the Kyoto Protocol. The only international treaty obliging … Continue reading
Chhattisgarh’s Industrial Jungle
Chhattisgarh is set to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron. The push is on to install 77 per cent of India’s current thermal power capacity, 51 per cent of the country’s present cement capacity and … Continue reading
On Day 1, Copenhagen ghost haunts Cancun
On the first day of the 16th annual climate change conference that began in Cancun on Monday, it became clear that the countries had made little progress from the failed previous meet in Copenhagen, but had actually moved backwards on … Continue reading
HIV-TB co-infection
In 2009, Mumbai had 1,623 HIV-TB co-infected patients; of these, 541 were initiated on anti-retroviral therapy (ART). It’s believed that better access to ART has improved the TB infection rates among such patients. Amid reports of the HIV epidemic slowing down … Continue reading
India’s Special Economic Zones: Socioeconomic Blunders In The Making
No scheme of the Indian government has evoked as much controversy in recent years as the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for industry aimed at exports. This has resulted in the displacement of poor farm families and villagers, brutal … Continue reading
The Murky SEZ Story In Goa
The order of the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court squashing and setting aside the land allotment to developers of seven designated Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the state has put the brakes, temporarily or not, on unplanned and … Continue reading
2010 Agricultural Statistics At A Glance
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