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Hounds
Of Music
With
Visvabharati’s copyright on Tagore ending next year and the Centre refusing
to throw in its weight, the poet’s music may be finally unshackled
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Why
Vultures Are Dying
•Scientists
suspect a virus that may have originated in South-east Asia.
•Another
cause could be pesticide transferred to the vulture through carrion.
•Shooting
down by airport authorities as the birds are a threat to flying aircraft.
Why
We Should Save Them
•If
unchecked, the virus may "jump" species to poultry and even
humans.
•They
dispose of dead and rotting bodies and prevent outbreak of diseases.
•They
return nutrients from carrion back to the soil through their waste.
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 Relics
of old empires exist everywhere. Why can't the Mani Shankar Aiyars of
India let them be? asks INDIA TODAY Senior Editor Ravi Shankar in
Friday
Fundas.
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The fate of the Kannur project in power-strapped Kerala is in a state
of limbo as the Government contends it is too expensive. But is it? INDIA
TODAY Principal Correspondent M.G. Radhakrishnan investigates in
Despatches.
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