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Mobile app to be drafted into battle against mosquitoes in Chennai

When traditional methods of using chemical pesticides, fogging and releasing Gambusia fish into water bodies fail to do enough to control mosquito menace, a little out-of-t...

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Sustainable Development

Water Walkathon

A large number of women in rural and urban India don’t have much to celebrate on women’s day on March 8 Their day will begin as usual with a walk to fetch water...

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Movies

True Review: Samrat & Co.

Critics Rating : 1.1/2.Stars

Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Gopal Datt, Madalasa Sharma, Girish Karnad

Direction: Kaushik Ghatak

Genre: Thrill...

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Sustainable Development

Only caste matters here, not development, employment

For 45-year-old Kishani Gurjar, election meant supporting a person of her own caste. A resident of Kamalpura village in Bharatpur district, Kishani did not much think about...

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Sustainable Development

Water From Fresh Air

In the Namib desert where rain is rare but fog common, a beetle survives by condensing water on its back until drops roll down into the insect’s mouth. Now this princ...

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Environment

Climate change may hit marine sector, says SAPCC

The marine and inland fisheries sectors in Kerala are likely to take a major hit as climate change affects fish stocks, resulting in decreased yield and loss of livelihood ...

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Environment

Fish losing survival instinct in acidic oceans

Fish are losing their survival instinct — even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators — as the world’s oceans become more acidic because of cl...

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Sustainable Development

Bihars agriculture & food industry may touch Rs 1 lk cr by next year

Agriculture and food industry in Bihar has the potential to reach Rs one lakh crore mark by 2015 with processed food products cornering 45 per cent share as the state is un...

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Sustainable Development

Soil health movement restoring agriculture

Farmers started the soil health movement that Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Greensboro, N.C., sees as the solu...

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Health

World Health Day 2014: Prevention and control

World Health Day is observed each year on April 7. The theme chosen for this year is Vector-borne diseases. Vectors are organisms that transmit pathogens and parasites from...

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