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Internet monitoring
Who watches the watchdogs?
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Security concerns have forced India to beef up its monitoring apparatus but unlimited access to private information raises serious concerns about witch hunting

Wind mills at Satara plateau
Wind energy or windfall?
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Indian corporates are earning carbon credits by claiming to be environment friendly but reality is quite different

Open software centre
'We have got hope installed'
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Slum kids in Bengaluru are learning important lessons in freedom and equality by using free software

Housing
Working in, staying out
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High cost of urban living is forcing people to work in cities and live in peripheries

Pentavalent Vaccine
Pretence of a protection
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It’s imperative to save our children against diseases, but does that justify mindless immunisation drives like the one involving pentavalent vaccine?

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Wobbly ground beneath her feet
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Girls belonging to poor families are being tricked into slavery at various cotton mills of Tamil Nadu on the pretext of welfare

Narcotics
Drug users yet to secure legal immunity
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Law provides immunity to drug users undergoing de-addiction treatment but courts have, so far, ignored this protective intent of the law

Tripti Tandon of Lawyers Collective talks to GOI Monitor about a recent case which brought the issue of immunity for drug users  under treatment into limelight

African land grab
Land grab in Africa, brought to you by India
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Joining the neo-colonial bandwagon, Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food at the cost of locals

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Safe blood efforts in vain
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Better technology, higher voluntary donation and exclusive law can help achieve absolute blood safety

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Security train is running late by indefinite hours
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A journey on Indian railways is fraught with risks to life and property and no one seems to be worried

north east
Disturbing placid waters of north east
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Hydroelectricity projects on the north eastern rivers are inviting protests by local communities who want development but not at the cost of livelihood and environment

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The road (better) taken only by a few
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India records one of the highest number of road accident deaths thanks to dismal trauma care

space
Heading towards a perpetual black hole?
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A recent CAG report indicts the National Remote Sensing Centre for lapses in implementation and fund allocations

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Why and How of Monitoring
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VOTE EVERY five years (or lesser). Pay taxes on time. don't damage public property. Abide by law of the land. Monitor the government. Surprised? You should not be. Because the way things are shaping up in our country, the task of proactively monitoring the government should be at the top of our duties as good citizens.

leather
Last call for leather tanneries to buckle up
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Even after 15 years and expenditure of Rs 135 crore, the project to control pollution from tanneries is incomplete

Eco tourism
Dead end for eco tourism
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A scheme to clean up major tourist cities ends up in the country’s dumping ground thanks to indifference of concerned authorities
Benami land deal
Immunity to proxy play
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Political and bureaucratic indifference to legislation prohibiting benami transaction means the country is missing on revenue worth crores

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