Economy

Self-help starters

A women development programme is changing the face of Rajasthan's countryside

Something unique is being done in the countryside of Rajasthan, in the self-help groups (shgs) formed in the villages. Following keen interest shown in the matter by chief minister Vasundhera Raje, poor women who live in abject poverty in the state will get a new lease of life.

Publication Date: 
08/11/2004
M.P.Jain
Business India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Development, Women, Rural Development, Rajasthan, Dungarpur (D)
Forests

 Women s rule

Should be extended, suggests panchayati raj meet

Publication Date: 
30/10/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Women, Legislation, Panchayats
India

 Burn baby burn

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war maimed US soldiers as well. A first hand account

Publication Date: 
29/09/2004
Gary Chenett
Down to Earth
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20040930
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Tags:
Cancer, Women, Compensation, Health Care, Dioxin, War, Vietnam, United States Of America (US)
India

 Sugar coated menace

Researchers link aerated drinks to diabetes in women

Publication Date: 
29/09/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Soft Drinks, Health Effects, Women, Diabetes, Research, United States Of America (US)
Industry

 The battle of the Indian bulge - I

In Nagpur city, women gather outside a court. In broad daylight they lynch a local serial rapist. When four women are arrested, few hundred women own up to the crime. They say they killed Akku Yadav

Publication Date: 
14/09/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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20040915
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Tags:
River Pollution, Women, Legislation, Governance, Politics, India, Delhi
India

 Bytes

the good dose: As per a study by the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a combination of three drugs

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Down to Earth
13
20040715
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Tags:
Corals, Health Effects, Women, Drugs, Infant Formula, Meningitis, AIDS, Obesity, Micro Organisms, Research, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries
Water Resources

 Running the show

Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Women, Education, NGO, Uttar Pradesh, Jalaun
Environment

 It s subtly done

From Thought to Action: Building Strategies on Violence Against Women

Publication Date: 
29/06/2004
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Research
India

 Exposing America s toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network s report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Publication Date: 
29/06/2004
Kushal P S Yadav
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Cancer, Women, Child Health, Chlorpyriphos, Mexico, United States Of America (US)
India

 A great sweep

Feisty women hill broom gatherers force the forest department to relent in a Orissa village

Publication Date: 
14/06/2004
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Women, Governance, Orissa (Odisha), Rayagada (D)

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