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India grapples with its child marriage challenge.

On a July afternoon in Upparapalli village in the state of Andhra Pradesh, southern India, something remarkable was happening. Inside a classroom, a group of teenage school girls trilled a lilting melody in honour of 15-year-old Savitri Pullakunta, whose marriage had been successfully thwarted by their collective eff ort. The young girls who had gathered in this school in the Adoni division of ...

Europe grapples with cloning headaches

The growing spectre of human reproductive cloning is putting unprecedented strain on some of the legislative bodies in Europe trying to keep a grip on it and the future of embryonic stem cell research. In Britain, which has gone further than many countries with detailed legislation to permit research on embryonic stem cells, a group of opponents late last year challenged the legislation, saying...

US grapples with solutions to preventable medical errors.

Mononchida (Nematoda) from Silent Valley National Park, India.

Four known and a new species of nematodes belonging to the Order Mononchida Jairajpuri, 1969 are described and illustrated from Silent Valley National Park, India. Cobbonchus vulvastriatus n. sp. has 0.92-0.11 mm long body; buccal cavity 25-27 x 12-13 μm, dorsal tooth comparatively large with its apex at 72-81% from base of stoma; subventral teeth slightly smaller with their apices at 40-41% fr...

Community solar salt production in Goa, India

Traditional salt farming in Goa, India has been practised for the past 1,500 years by a few communities. Goa's riverine estuaries, easy access to sea water and favourable climatic conditions makes salt production attractive during summer. Salt produced through this natural evaporation process also played an important role in the economy of Goa even during the Portuguese rule as salt was the chi...