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The much-awaited AIDS control programme takes off. So why are drug companies still miffed?

Trade clean air for green-house gases. What do you get? Pollution? Not necessarily. Money?

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Two non-governmental organisations, the Chennai-based M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and the Delhi-based Development Alternatives bagged the prestigious Stockholm Challenge award, for the usage