India

 Sham, sham

A recent survey finds the food for work progamme mired in corruption

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Sourav Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Economic Development, Unemployment, Legislation, Governance, India, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Corruption
Health

Magnitude of unresponsiveness to sodium stibogluconate in the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar

The Indian government proposes to eliminate kala-azar, which has been a serious public health problem in Bihar.
This study aimed to assess the magnitude of unresponsiveness to sodium stibogluconate in the treatment of new cases of visceral leishmaniasis and to identify the associated factors.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
01/05/2005
V.N.R. Das, A. Ranjan, Sanjeev Bimal & et al
National Medical Journal of India
18
3
131
Tags:
Drugs, Kala Azar, India, Bihar
India

 Green Bihar?

Congress manifesto implcitly acknowledges past mistakes and sets a new agenda

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Amarnath
Down to Earth
Tags:
Floods, Bihar
Wildlife

The Terai Arc landscape in India

The Terai-Duar Savanna Ecoregion is spread over the southern slopes of the Himalayas in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) lies within this ecoregion covering an area of approximately 49,500 sq km in India and Nepal stretching from the Bagmati River in the East to the Yamuna River in the west.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2005
Rajeev L. Semwal
WWF India
Tags:
Land Use, Forest Resources, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, People - Animal Conflicts, Invasive Alien Species, Nepal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Environment

 Forewarning

Will another social activist in Bihar meet a gory end?

Publication Date: 
14/08/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tanks, Water Conservation, Conflicts, Bihar
Natural Disasters

Battling Bihar

As northern Bihar reels under heavy floods, the worst in a decade, the State government struggles hard to take relief to the people.

Publication Date: 
13/08/2004
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Floods, Bihar, Katihar (D), Muzaffarpur (D), Saharsa (D), Sheohar (D), Sitamarhi (D)
India

 Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats

Publication Date: 
30/07/2004
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Panchayats, India, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
Water Pollution

 Intrinsic link

Cancer linked to polluted water in the Gangetic belt

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Tanvi Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Ganga, Heavy Metals, Cancer, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
Food Policy

Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine tha

Publication Date: 
02/07/2004
Sukumar Muralidharan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Food Security, India, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Supreme Court, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Arunachal, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa (Odisha), Punjab, West Bengal, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Water Resources

Useful macrophytes in Kawar lake, North Bihar, India

A sizable number of macrophytes growing luxuriantly in Kawar lake, the largest one of its kind in Bihar, are utilized by the native folk for food (Euryale ferox, Ipomoea aquatica, Nelumbo nucifera, Nymphaea nouchali, Nymphaea sp. - a probable hybrid, Cyperus rotundus), fodder (Commelina benghalensis, Cynodon dactylon, Cyperus iria, C. rotundus, Echinochloa colonum, E.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2004
K. B. Nandan, C. B. Singh
Indian Journal of Forestry
27
3
241
Tags:
Water Resources, Lakes, Aquatic Plants, Kawar, Bihar

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