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Thousands of farmers detained in Ahmedabad
By d-sector Team | 27 Feb 2010

Farmers and social activists opposing the Nirma group's planned cement plant and limestone quarry in Mahuva in Gujarat detained in Ahmedabad before they could organise a rally from Sabarmati to Gandhinagar. |
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Right to Education: Time for a giant leap
By Swaty Prakash | 23 Feb 2010

The HRD Minister of India has new and innovative ideas to mould the education sector. His challenge lies in converting plans into concrete actions. |
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NBA demonstrates against Maheshwar dam
By d-sector Team | 16 Feb 2010

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Activists blast the proposed Biotech Regulator Bill
By d-sector Team | Chandigarh | 16 Feb 2010

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Encourage sustainable farming, not GM: KVM
By d-sector Team | 09 Feb 2010

While the world awaits India's crucial decision on Bt brinjal, farmers, activists, and researchers exhort the government to use the historical opportunity to chart out a sustainable path in Indian food & farming systems. |
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Workers and activists demand ban on asbestos
By d-sector Team | 05 Feb 2010

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'World-class' Delhi can't tolerate cycle rickshaw
By Gaurav Sharma | 02 Feb 2010

In order to accomplish their desire to make Indian Capital a 'world-class' city, the elitist and myopic administrators of Delhi are pushing environmental friendly cycle rickshaw out of city to increase space for swelling number of polluting cars. |
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Copenhagen can't compensate them
By Rina Mukherji | 30 Jan 2010

As industrialised nations refuse to drastically cut down their GHG emissions, the poor living on the coastlines bear the brunt of the rising seas. |
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Despite SC directive, no respite for vendors
By Gaurav Sharma | 24 Dec 2009

As vendors fight for the right to livelihood, municipal authorities and police continue to harass them, ignoring SC rulings and govt policy |
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Climate accord betrays the vulnerable
By Bhaskar Goswami | 20 Dec 2009

The climate deal hastily put together by the BASIC countries and the USA gives license to the rich countries to continue polluting the planet, thereby rewarding them instead of imposing penalty for their climate crimes. |
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COP15 turns into a climate con
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 17 Dec 2009

With rich countries refusing to accept emission reduction targets, the chances of a meaningful climate deal at Copenhagen are now almost over.
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Delhi students march against GM food
By d-sector Team | New Delhi | 17 Dec 2009

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Jairam gets hot and cold at Copenhagen
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 16 Dec 2009

Frequent change of stance and partners has not helped India's cause in the ongoing Copenhagen conference.
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In Delhi, police loot the vendors
By Gaurav Sharma | New Delhi | 15 Dec 2009

Instead of encouraging and facilitating the efforts of poor people to earn their livelihood through honest means of street vending, Delhi administration subjects them to frequent beating and humiliation, just to ensure huge flow of protection money. |
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Nations divided, citizens united
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 13 Dec 2009

While negotiators fail to reach consensus on a binding climate agreement; citizens from the entire world took part in a peaceful protest march in Copenhagen bringing the city to a standstill. |
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New drafts appear, but differences persist
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 12 Dec 2009

Fearing failure of Copenhagen conference due to widening rift between developed and developing countries, two new drafts are issued for negotiations to bridge the divisions.
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India loses credibility at Copenhagen
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 11 Dec 2009

With news doing the rounds that the Danish Text was drafted after consultation with India, the emerging power is left with a lot of bad reputation in the ongoing climate negotiations. |
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Talk mathematics, not morality: US
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 10 Dec 2009

US and other industrialised nations get ready to derail the Copenhagen conference if developing world fails to toe their line. |
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G77's unity cracks at Copenhagen
By Bhaskar Goswami | Copenhagen | 08 Dec 2009

Major developing nations dilute their demand on emission cut commitments of industrialised countries, leaving poor and island nations high and dry at Copenhagen conference. |
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New study on Himalayan glaciers adds to climate confusion
By Swaty Prakash | 10 Nov 2009

Two years back IPCC claimed that Himalayan glaciers were receding fast and could disappear by 2035. Now a geological study declares that such fears are irrational and not based on scientific facts. |
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