India

 Eager to achieve

MANOJ Kumar, the son of a brick kiln worker, shows the perspicacity of one much older than his 14 years. He not only won both the biodiversity competitions held at Gangagarh, he also topped his class. Manoj spoke to Down To Earth about his motivations and

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
Down to Earth
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Children, Biodiversity, Education, India
Environment

 Green lessons

Environment will become a compulsory subject in government schools in Delhi from the next academic season. According to the state education minister Sahi Singh Verma, "The elder citizens of the Union

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Education
Environment

 Footprints of the wild

Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on wildlife and environment, some targeting children.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Anuj Sharma
Down to Earth
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Environment, Wildlife, Education, Children
India

 Yi triumphs over one

HOW DO Chinese tots outperform their American counterparts? Psychologist David C Geary of the University of Missouri at Columbia, USA, who has studied the performance of Chinese and American

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Science And Technology, Education, China
India

 Manipulating reality

The concept of Virtual Reality simulating the real world is adding a new dimension to entertainment and education.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Rakesh Kalshian
Down to Earth
Tags:
Science And Technology, Astronomy, Video, Education, Computers
Agriculture

 Too many graduates

India's agricultural universities are producing far too many forestry graduates for the jobs available. Protests by the graduates prompted the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) to write

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Agriculture, Services, Public Sector, Education
Health

 Clinton proposes talks on jobs

Burdened by rising joblessness, US President Bill Clinton wants world leaders to meet to find a solution to the vexing problem

Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health, Economic Development, Unemployment, Electronics Industry, Education, United States Of America (US)
Environment

 Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Sumanta Pal
Down to Earth
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Environment, Women, Family Planning, Education, UN Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA), Sustainable Development, Population
Environment

 A tangram for Clinton

In order to reinforce its pro abortion stand, the new US administration has announced its intention of resuming funding to the UNFPA. The hitch: UNFPA supports China's rigorous population control programme, which has been decried internationally as infrin

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Women, Family Planning, Education, UN Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA), Sustainable Development, Population
Health

 Sidelining sanitation

BURDENED by repayment of its enormous external debt, the Peruvian government has been forced to cut down its budgeting for health and sanitation facilities, even though a cholera epidemic claimed

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health, Sanitation, Finance, Education, Peru

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