Delhi

There are both in Delhi criminal waste, unendurable want. And in this city of verdant veneers, nowhere does the callous politics of dispossession show its slip more than in the titanic economics of water. Water led the way to the formation of cities; th

Publication Date:

30/03/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940331

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Resources, India, Delhi

India

Killed by indifference

When two young people die in a highway accident, is it destiny or a callous and indifferent administration?

Publication Date:

14/03/1994

Author(s): Mridula Garg

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940315

pp:

0

Tags:

Automobiles, Traffic Accidents, Government Of India (GOI), Delhi

India

High risk high rises

The Delhi Fire Service wants legislation with "more teeth" to bring to book the owners of more than 100 high-rise buildings in the Capital for not installing basic fire safety measures. Noncompliance

Publication Date:

14/03/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

High Rise Building, Legislation, Delhi

Economy

Death of a king

A street play in Delhi urges people to stop poaching.

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940228

pp:

0

Tags:

Poaching, Education, Delhi

Water Pollution

Scapegoats

The state government of Delhi has identified the "real culprit" behind the city's street congestion -- the ubiquitous cycle-rickshaw. Funny, considering that the harmless three-wheeler is the only

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Rickshaws, Delhi

India

The right formula

Setting a global precedent, the Eighth Asian Congress of Paediatrics in the Capital refused to accept financial support from infant formula food companies. The congress president, R D Potdar, claimed

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Personnel, Breast Feeding, Infant Formula, Delhi

India

Ridding Delhi's brothels of HIV

An organisation of sex workers struggles to combat the spread of AIDS in Delhi's red light areas.

Publication Date:

14/02/1994

Author(s): Sudeep Mukhia

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940215

pp:

0

Tags:

AIDS, India, Delhi

India

Targeting Delhi

The National Literacy Mission (NLM) plans to lead Delhi's 2.48 million illiterates "from darkness into light". Besides reading and writing, the mission will focus on sex education, AIDS awareness,

Publication Date:

14/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Education, India, Delhi