First Principles
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Pink Alert: How Real Is The Threat of Breast Cancer?
Advocacy groups routinely urge women in their 40s to have regular mammograms. But experts question their utility
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CAG Vinod Rai: Some Don’t Take Our Reports Seriously
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai tells us that its reports are often not taken seriously by ministries who find it all too easy to point fingers when matters go wrong
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Restructuring the Planning Commission
A crack team led by Arun Maira is trying to breathe new life into a fading institution
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India's Highways Follow A Crooked Path
Beneath India's grand scheme to build a world class highway network lies a web of corruption and inefficiency
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Cleaning Up the Indian Patent Office
To seed innovation and attract more patent applications, India needs an efficient system. The new patents chief P.H. Kurian has started with the basics
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Back To The Roots For Andhra Pradesh Farmers
Traditional practices can revive tired soil and pull small farmers out of debt. Andhra Pradesh shows the way
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The Bellary Minefield
Miners in the area have one by one capitulated to the might of Janardhan Reddy. But Rahul Baldota is putting up a stiff resistance
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Who Do Oil Companies Turn to When There's a Spill?
Cleaning up oil spills takes money, equipment and skill. Oil Spill Response, a non-profit co-operative, is the first port of call for those attempting a clean-up
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Is The Dotcom Craze Back?
For a bubble-wary Internet observer, some of the indicators may seem ominously similar to the dotcom boom. But 2010 is no 1999
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Maxx Mobile: The Shanzhai Warrior
Ajjay Agarwal's Maxx Mobiles is among the clutch of upstarts that used off-the-shelf technology to erode Nokia's dominance in India's mobile phone market. Will the tribe survive the perils of scale?
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India's River Power
States are setting up run-of-the-river power projects to avoid resettlement issues associated with large dams. But the projects have their own drawbacks