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/ 1 November 2006
The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined before — running cars and trucks. On the hilly grasslands of the western state of Maharashtra, near the village of Malegaon, Chindu and his tribe of about 40 men and women busily plant jatropha saplings.
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/ 28 October 2005
For India’s astrologers, even at 69,4-million kilometers away, Mars is too close for comfort. The red planet, named after the Roman god of war, will be at its closest to Earth since 2003 on Saturday and won’t come as near for another decade, prompting some astrologers to predict trouble, destruction and plain old bad luck.