Monthly Archives: May 2009

GIS map to identify vulnerable polling booths

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

KRISHNAGAR, West Bengal, India: Even as police launched a massive crackdown on anti-social elements in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, the Nadia district administration, perhaps for the first time, has come up with a GIS map to identify … Continue reading →

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Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Molecular paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and colleagues presented evidence  in Science that they had successfully recovered and identified collagen, a type of protein, from the femur of an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur. read … Continue reading →

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Is India failing to win hearts and minds in Kashmir?

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Found this thought provoking story on Reuters. Is India pushing the ordinary Kashmiri people further away by enforcing regular curfews, putting most of their separatist leaders under house arrest and denying them religious freedom by banning Friday prayers in Kashmir’s … Continue reading →

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Toda People of India

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Prior to the late eighteenth century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Badaga, Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose … Continue reading →

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