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Jairam Ramesh to meet 'critical' emerging nations in Beijing

With the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December only a fortnight away, Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, is flying to China to meet up with a few representatives of ‘critical’ emerging countries like Brazil and South Africa to arrive at a meeting point. He will leave on 27 November and return on 29 November.

Britons selling kidney to beat credit crunch

At least a dozen Britons have offered to sell their kidneys for 25,000 pounds or more each to beat credit crunch and pay off their debts, a media report said today. Their advertisements offering kidney have appeared on the internet and five of them corresponded with undercover journalists, who posed as friends and relatives of sick patients to negotiate sales, The Sunday Times claimed.

Check unplanned farm conversion, says panel

The rapid conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural uses is not the best way to food security. That is what the government-appointed panel on land reforms and agrarian relations says in its report, currently under the consideration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It blames the conversion both on absence of land use policies, “opening up of economy’’ and also on the non-remunerative nature of farming.