Agriculture

 Protecting the nation's patents

V K GUPTA , director, National Institute of Science Communication NISCOM , tells VIBHA VARSHNEY how they set about building the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library TKDL . Gupta is hopeful that TKDL will vastly reduce recurrence of patent fiascos of

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Traditional Knowledge, Patents, Information, Education, United States Of America (US)
India

 Realities unmasked

A look at the prescribed guidelines for PCB appointments reveals glaring loopholes

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Education, Personnel Management, Governance, Personalities, India
India

 A space of their own

A garden for blind persons that explores more than just botanical learning

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
Biswajeet Banerjee
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Blindness, Botany, Technology, Education, India
India

 Tribals become anthropologists

Bhasha a tribal academy that enables Bhils to study themselves

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
Nitin Sethi
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Dams, Development, Tribals, Bhil, Traditional Knowledge, Education, India, Gujarat
India

 The E Connection

In an attempt to bridge the digital divide, Bhutan's planning commission secretariat is establishing an information network in all its 20 administrative districts (dzongkhags). The project

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Education, UNDP, Bhutan, Internet, Computers
India

 Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
Sopan Joshi
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Children, Village Level Planning, Technology, Education, Governance, NGO, India, Madhya Pradesh
India

 AIDS set to strike with a vengeance

Blissfully unaware India and China to be hardest hit

Publication Date: 
14/08/2002
Down to Earth
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Health Education, AIDS, Information, Education, NGO, China, India
India

 Power of knowledge

In Madhya Pradesh, Mangal and Surshingh of Sarai village, go to the district administration at Dhar, several kilometres away, to lodge complaints against local services. Sometimes, it is about

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Education, Madhya Pradesh, Computers
Health

'Education for every Tamil Nadu Child by 2010'

The State Government today launched its ambitious Rs. 1,800 crore 'Education for All' movement with the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, declaring "no child would be left out of school education by

Publication Date: 
17/07/2002
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Education
India

 Industry's Nemesis

A report by the National Institute of Occupational Health nails endosulfan. Is that why the pesticide establishment wants to keep it under wraps?

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
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Pesticides, Plantation Crops, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, Farmers, Endosulfan, Research, Education, Legislation, Human Rights, China, India, Kerala, Kasaragod (D)

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