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Tower B of Doordarshan in New Delhi.-

Dedicated to the public good

Prasar Bharati crosses another milestone as its two media units, All India Radio and Doordarshan, enter the digital era.
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Amid a cloud of fumes emitted by a bus, in Chennai. The Central Pollution Control Board has established a national network of 295 stations to monitor air quality in 90 cities and towns across the country.-V. GANESAN

Towards green cities

As the global trend of increasing urban population lends urgency to the task of making cities greener, the Ministry of Environment and Forests draws u
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For sustainable solutions

The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stak
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A policy of promise

The draft National Environment Policy prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests is comprehensive and evokes a positive response from a cross
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Prof. Arun Nigavekar, University Grants Commission Chairman, (second from right) inaugurating a TIFAC-CORE at Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering in Srivilliputtur on August 31. (From left) E. Balagurusamy, Anna University Vice-chancellor, K. Venkatasubramanian, former member, Union Planning Commission, and T. Kalasalingam, chairman of the college.-K. GANESAN

In pursuit of excellence

Through Mission REACH, the Department of Science and Technology aims to bring out the best in the industry and the academia and help usher India into
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Knowledge at their doorsteps

THE Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has joined hands with the MSSRF to harness the tools of the space age for rural development through a to
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Action plan for connectivity

THE success of Mission 2007 depends to large extent on the level of telecommunication connectivity. If the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory A
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A vision for rural India

With its grand Mission 2007 project, the Chennai-based M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation plans to promote rural prosperity by focussing on an infor
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A phase of the sun on a day of total solar eclipse.-

Science for social progress

The tireless efforts of Vigyan Prasar to popularise science and inculcate a scientific temperament in people through the media and through various inn
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A close look at Venus.-

A celestial transit

IT is being billed as the rarest of rare spectacles. On June 8, planet Venus will come in between the Earth and the Sun.
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A new horizon

With its direct-to-home initiative, which would allow the transmission of the public broadcaster's content to remote and inaccessible regions of the c
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Taking science to the masses

The Government of India designates 2004 as the Year of Scientific Awareness, citing the need to inculcate in the people the habit of putting their sci
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