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Publication Date: 
30/08/1993
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 A long road ahead

Despite its vast numbers of scientists and research institutes, Indian science has always fared poorly on the global front. Several reasons have been put forward for the dismal performance, but the only fact that emerges is that there can be no consensus

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30/08/1993
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Food Supply, Development, Health, Sanitation, Technology, Scientists, India
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 Special status for India in global village

THIS OBJECTIVE and creditable book brought out by UNESCO is based on discussions organised under the auspices of the International Council for Science Policy Studies (ICSPS), a section of the

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14/08/1993
M G K Menon
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Fisheries

 Job chances decline for factory workers

With technology advancing at a tremendous pace, companies are retrenching unskilled employees. The effect is being felt most in Europe

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
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Industrial Workers, Unemployment, Technology, Europe
India

 Disappointing effort on ecological economics

This book is a collection of papers from the inaugural conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics held in 1990 in Washington. The society defines ecological economics as the

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30/07/1993
Abhijit Sen
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Ecology, Development, Economic Development, Technology
Energy

 Missile collusion

WHILE Washington continues to maintain there is no proof that China is exporting nuclear missile technology to Pakistan, US intelligence says it has proof China shipped components to Pakistan that

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
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Nuclear Power, Technology, China, Pakistan, United States Of America (US)
India

 Setting up shop

First, the government shook scientific institutions out of their lethargy by applying the brake on funds. Now, its asking them to tie up with industry and show profits in the global market.

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29/06/1993
Anjani Khanna
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Environment

 Masterly exploration of the state of Earth

AL GORE being elected vice-president of the US has delighted environmentalists elsewhere, for unlike his predecessor Dan Quayle, who once spelt potato with an "e" at the end in a schoolroom

Publication Date: 
30/05/1993
Muchkund Dubey
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 Machines, not humans, still define civilisation

The notion that science and technology are the indicators of a nation"s development has helped establish white superiority through the ages and enabled the Western world to dominate non-Western people.

Publication Date: 
14/05/1993
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Development, Technology, War, History, India
India

 A people devoid of "genius and imagination"

The curiosity about exotic lands that gripped scholars in the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in the collation of a lot of information, much of it tailored to fit the myth of white superiority.

Publication Date: 
14/05/1993
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