Irreversible fallout on people and ecology Public platforms exist to discuss the economic importance and environmental threats of mining but few key players take advantage of it.
Red art's turning to green Today's buyers are members of Russia's emerging upper middle class, who often want paintings to decorate their urban apartments and countryside dachas, or collectors among the country's new super-rich who see art as an investment and a hobby.
Cheaper AIDS drugs The new prices will halve the cost of the drugs for better-off developing nations.
An Act that casts the net wider Once all watchdogs are 'neutralised', they will continue on their merry way displacing all the Adivasi communities from their land for 'development' (and kickbacks!) at all or any cost.
Clan returns to caves Ndorobo members see the civilisation they were promised at the foot of Mount Elgon as elusive and abandon their farms for a more traditional life in Chepkitale Forest in Kenya.
A Russian painting. Russia’s new capitalists are paying a lot for paintings of Socialist Realism.
Is the Government justified in leaving out ministers and legislators from the Lokayukta’s suo motu powers?
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