APPROXIMATELY 6.73 million hectares of India’s agricultural land is affected by varying degrees of soil salinity. About 130 million hectares are under agriculture.
THE stuff that makes moth balls also turns up as one cooks. In an experiment that modelled the European restaurant kitchen, scientists found that cooking beef steak on a stove releases naphthalene.
INDIA contributes 20 per cent of the global burden of new tuberculosis cases. In 2008, 1.8 million people died from TB including half a million deaths associated with HIV worldwide, said a 2009 WHO report.
Invasive species are one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Means of human transport has only made it easier for some to hitch a ride and colonize new regions.
Birbar village has three addresses. It is now looking for a fourth one. The village will once again have a new longitude and latitude on the map. Within a year the Kosi river has crept from 500 metres to within 20 metres of the village in Saharsa district of Bihar.
Maulana Talib Hussein does not find it easy to squat. Yet five times a day, the 64-year-old must get into that position to perform wudu , Arabic for the Islamic norm of cleaning.
Naresh Chauhan is the fastest editor in the studio of Gurgaon Ki Awaaz, a community radio channel of rural Gurgaon. A Class X dropout with no experience of computer operations until nine months ago, Chauhan runs a programme called Gurgaon Sports.
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