India

 Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
Sopan Joshi
Down to Earth
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Children, Village Level Planning, Technology, Education, Governance, NGO, India, Madhya Pradesh
Pesticides And Toxins

Final report of the investigation of unusual illnesses allegedly produced by endosulfan exposure in Padre village of Kasargod...

Final report of the investigation of unusual illnesses allegedly produced by endosulfan exposure in Padre Village of Kasargod District (N.Kerala)Submitted to the Honourable National Human Rights Commision.

Publication Date: 
24/07/2002
National Institute of Occupational Health
Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Children, Child Health, Pesticides And Toxins, Endosulfan, CSE, Kerala, Kasaragod (D), Ahmedabad, National Institute of Occupational Health
Industry

 For children s sake

Public pressure forces US agency to reconsider proposed move to suspend paediatric drug testing rule

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Health Care, Drug Industry, Research, Legislation, United States Of America (US)
Air Pollution

 The Menace Within

Project to review the impact of indoor air pollution

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, Women, Children, India
Fisheries

 JUMBO GIFT

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister gifted two baby elephants to a group of Japanese children. Moved by reports about the impact of the recent conflict in the Balkans on a zoo in the Croatian city

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Conflicts, Elephant, Japan, Sri Lanka
India

 Poignant Images

WHEN too many words clamour with each other and obfuscate the contours of a discourse, images perhaps remain the lone source of strength for people. Recovering this primal force of images,

Publication Date: 
14/04/2002
Surendranath C
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticides, Plantation Crops, Children, Endosulfan, Kerala, Kasaragod (D)
Air Pollution

 SC not to budge on CNG issue

Apex court slams Mashelkar committee report

Publication Date: 
30/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, CNG, Diesel, Emissions Trading, Children, Legislation, Supreme Court, Delhi
Agriculture

 Role reversal

Anti HIV drugs can mutate the genes of an embryo

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Medical Research, Drugs, AIDS, Genetic Disorders, Genetic Engineering, New York
Climate Change

 Brainstorming

Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Cancer, Children, Medical Research, Child Health, Diseases
India

 Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Satyasundar Barik
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Health Effects, Water Act 1974, Respiratory Diseases, Tribals, Women, Children, Tuberculosis, Skin Diseases, Legislation, India, Orissa (Odisha), Bhubaneswar, Toxic Wastes, Crops

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