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Efforts to preserve 2000-Year old Tulu culture (Part-I)
Thaindian News —
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The month of December was marked by agitations in different parts of the country for the carving out of separate states like Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, Gorkhaland in West Bengal, Bodoland in Assam, Vidharbha in Maharashtra and Harit Pradesh in Uttar Pradesh. For a while, the agitations made people ask whether it was ...4 days ago -
Campaign to save Western Ghats becomes a mass movement (Feature)
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By Maitreyee BoruahBangalore, Dec 18 (IANS) Long before words like “climate change” came to hit common lexicon, a group of environmentally conscious people in India took up the cause of the Western Ghats, one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots.Those behind the Save Western Ghats Campaign, which began ...1 week ago -
India most vulnerable to climate change: Environment Minister
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New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) India is the country most vulnerable to climate change, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said here Thursday.Replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, on India’s position at the Dec 7-18 climate summit in Copenhagen, Ramesh said India was most vulnerable to ...3 weeks ago -
Kaiga leakage dominates parliament, authorities file complaint
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New Delhi / Kaiga, (Karnataka), Dec 2 (ANI): The alleged leakage at the Kaiga nuclear plant in coastal Karnataka dominated proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, even as plant officials filed a report with Karnataka Police suggesting sabotage.Senior Manager of the plant Uma Maheshwar filed the complaint at the ...3 weeks ago -
Tiger/tigress present in Quepem Forest in Goa
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Against the claim of Forest department that there are no tigers in the forest of Goa, villagers of Cavrem Maina of Quepem taluka claims that there are tigers inhabitants in forest of Cavrem - Maina. Villagers of Cavrem claims that they have personally seen tigers attacking cattles. One Fondu Velip of Cavrem stated ...4 weeks ago -
Words and deeds
MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre —
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The statement of Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh, that the central government will not give sanction for any mining or hydro-electric project that will destroy the fragile Western Ghats eco-system is welcome. No minister before this – except Maneka Gandhi – has ever given such a ...4 weeks ago -
Sabarimala sells 1.2 lakh cans of prasadam daily
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Sabarimala (Kerala), Nov 22 (IANS) As many as 1.2 lakh cans of the special ‘aravana prasadam’ made out of rice, jaggery and coconut are being sold on an average every day at Kerala’s famed Sabrimala temple during the annual two-month pilgrimage season.Sold in containers weighing 250 ml, this prasadam is ...4 weeks ago -
Pickpockets on prowl among Sabarimala pilgrims
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Sabarimala (Kerala), Nov 21 (IANS) The annual Sabarimala pilgrimage season has just begun and the pickpockets already seem to be having a field day among the throng of devotees. Police have received several complaints from pilgrims of purses being filched in the last few days.Sashidran Panicker, police sub inspector ...5 weeks ago
