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	<title>Profile: Season Watch Project</title>
	<description>If there is a neem or jamun tree in your backyard, check it regularly and note down when they flower and fruit. You may soon realise you are collecting data for scientific research through the website www.ncbs.res.in...</description>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 07:55:21 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refugees</title>
	<description>Physicians for Human Rights said government authorities are preventing the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, from receiving adequate care....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:36 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Waging a green war</title>
	<description>Former Bodo militants have surrendered their guns but are still at war – against poachers and the timber mafia that are destroying the Subankhata Reserve Forest in Assam’s Baksha district....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:35 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Profile: SeasonWatch Project</title>
	<description>If there is a neem or jamun tree in your backyard, check it regularly and note down when they flower and fruit. You may soon realise you are collecting data for scientific research....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:32 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>India's Upper House Approves Women's Reservation Bill</title>
	<description>The upper house of India's parliament has approved a bill to reserve a third of all seats in the national parliament and state legislatures for women....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:17 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Gorakhpur’s women of soil</title>
	<description>Farmer Prabhawati Devi, 40, rubs shoulders with landowners in the village haat as she selects seeds, pesticides and fertilizers for her crops and decides where the yield should be sold....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:03:18 -0800</pubDate>
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	<title>Easy Way to Reduce Urban Water Wastage</title>
	<description>Using foot pedals, the average urban citizen can contribute to saving precious water, without compromising on lifestyle....</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:13:25 -0800</pubDate>
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