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According to Netherlands environmental agency, China’s Carbon Dioxide emissions now exceed that of America,

China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world [...]

T Thomas argues that India should create six elite schools and six elite universities,
An imaginative Prime Minister like Dr Manmohan Singh can possibly use his own advocacy and credibility to persuade, say six Indian states to build up one elite Institution in each of these states. The Central Minister for Education should then be given [...]

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Radiology has always been the most technologically driven medical specialty. The spread of internet and advanced digital technology — images available any time, anywhere – has allowed for ”real time” collaboration not only between radiologists and clinical specialists but also between radiologists themselves. This has resulted in many innovations [...]

The global trade talks have collapsed once again because Europe and America have refused to give up agricultural subsidies.
Kamal Nath, the Indian trade minister, said the United States had offered to cap its domestic agricultural subsidies at $17 billion, considerably lower than the $22 billion it had offered before, but still well above the roughly [...]

In an interesting development, Multi Commodities Exchange is lanuching a carbon futures exchange in India.
MCX provides a marketplace for futures contracts in commodities such as bullion, pulses and steel.
“We have had several rounds of talks with CCX and some sort of contract is already ready. We are now waiting for a clearance from the Forward [...]

As children their parents gave them to serve Yellama – the goddess of fertility. Her cult is thousands of years old, her followers spread across southern India. “Being devadasis means we are slaves of the goddess. We have to visit this temple. We wear necklaces of pearls to show we are bound to Yellama. We [...]

In an interesting article in the The New tork Times, David LeonHardt argues that while universal coverage, the current focus of democratic presidential candidates is a good idea, what is being ignored is the rapidly rising cost of the health care. He further argues that it is this which is responsible for the rise of [...]