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As climate-change talks continue, lack of consensus spurs smaller-scale actions by Juliet Eilperin and William Booth

In response to growing frustration that the U.N. climate negotiations are not producing real-world results, individual nations, states and business are cobbling together patchwork solutions to preserve forests, produce clean energy and scrub pollution from the air.Under this new approach, businesses in California will offset their greenhouse gas emissions by funding tropical forest preservation in Mexico and Brazil; Japan will help pay for nuclear power plants in developing nations; and...

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Surge in Food Insecurity by J George

Every passing day makes it clear that the proposed food security law may not come by for a while. One report quoting the Planning Commission even suggested that it can be expected only in 2012. This Twelfth Plan (2012-17) launch has support from the concerned dual Ministry of Agriculture as well as Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution. In that eventuality it does mean a surge in food insecurity.A dispassionate...

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Govt targets 50 cr skilled manpower in 10 years

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that the country targets to create 50 crore skilled manpower by 2020 to become an economic superpower. "We are focussing at skill development to get demographic dividend from our huge young population. In the next 10 years a 50 crore skilled workforce will be created," he said at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Scholar School in Bagnan here in Howrah district. Two-thirds of...

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Lethal impact by R Krishnakumar

The issues relating to the victims of endosulfan, sprayed in the plantations of Kasargod district in Kerala, have snowballed once again. “Earthworms emerged from the soil, and, subsequently, died. Then birds came to eat the earthworms and they died as well.”   “Some termites were killed in a cotton farm sprayed with endosulfan. A frog fed on the dead termites, and was immobilised a few minutes later. An owl which flew over...

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Azim Premji pledges $2bn to foundation

In the largest act of philanthropy by an Indian, Wipro chairman Azim Premji will give about Rs 8,846 crore ($2 billion) to improve school education in India. Other donations to charitable institutions by any person or corporation in India pale in comparison to this massive endowment. It effectively silences critics who say Indian billionaires are measly donors compared to foreign counterparts, and that they focus on big-name western universities rather...

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