India

PROHIBITED FOREVER

The Delhi High Court recently upheld the countrywide ban imposed by the Central government on trade of ivory and snakeskin while dismissing several petitions filed by hundreds of traders. The court

Publication Date:

29/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wildlife Trade, Legislation, Delhi

India

Mean inheritance

Scavengery continues to remain one of society s ills in spite of laws created to abolish it

Publication Date:

29/04/1997

Author(s): Manjeet Sehgal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970430

pp:

0

Tags:

Scavengers, Rehabilitation, Human Rights, India

India

Grandma s recipes

granny often knows best. Whenever there was a sore throat or a toothache we went to her and grandma obligingly pulled out a potion from her treasure trove of remedies. Many of them even worked.

Publication Date:

29/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970430

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Harvesting, Population, Traditional Knowledge, India

Habitat And Urbanisation

Urban planning is not an extension of architecture, but requires the co-ordination of a wide variety of skills and inputs. Most importantly, planning is meaningless unless it is firmly linked to implementation. The planner's best course of action is to set the objectives of his plan, and use these to determine policy initiatives.

Publication Date:

18/04/1997

Author(s): Shirish B Patel

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

32

Issue:

15

pp:

822

Tags:

Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Planning, Urban Development, Mumbai, India

India

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the lesser known barriers are the linings of the gut

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Author(s): N Raghuram

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970415

pp:

0

Tags:

Respiratory Diseases, Immunisation, Vaccination, Physiology, Micro Organisms

India

To clone or not to clone...

to say that science and technology is progressing at lightning speed is an understatement. What, however, needs to be questioned is whether it is moving in the right direction or not. Since reports

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970415

pp:

0

Tags:

Science, Technology, Genetic Cloning

India

Coast is unclear

The official hostility to the most important instrument for safeguarding India's coastal ecology may prove disastrous

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecology, Coastal Erosion, India

India

The immune system

The immune system comprises of two categories of white blood cells

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970415

pp:

0

Tags:

Respiratory Diseases, Immunisation, Vaccination, Physiology, Micro Organisms

India

Long overdue

three cheers! The Indian Board of Wildlife meets at last, presumably because of the pressure from non-governmental organisations. The apex decision-making body in India in the field of wildlife was

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19970415

pp:

0

Tags:

National Parks, Sanctuaries, India

India

Billed to kill

The ministry of agriculture is planning to push through a bill in the current Parliament session which, if passed, will thwart last year's Supreme Court (SC) decision to ban coastal aquaculture farms

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Aquaculture, Legislation, India