TERI recommends closure of some Coca Cola plants
The report: "Independent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India' By: The Energy and Resource Institute, Delhi Tested plants: Kaladera (Rajasthan), Nemam (Tamil Nadu),
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Maharashtra sets up probe into sickle cell anaemia
maharashtra has set up a committee to look into the growing prevalence of sickle cell anaemia in the state and prepare a plan to check the spread of the disease. The move comes in the wake of a
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Tsunami effect: compensation to victims stalled
A cow for Rs 89,000, a pig for Rs 12,000 and a goat, Rs 19,000. These are not fictional prices dreamt up by some livestock dealer. These are the prices businessmen have quoted for supplying
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A photo exhibition transcending borders
Mamata Sardar Kolkata Karina Krisch Hamburg An exhibition of photographs clicked by children in Kolkata, Freiburg and Hamburg shows how children relate to
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Nagpur plots pro poor plan to help land grabbers
Big, bigger Almost a third of the entire Nagpur district, that is 3,780 sq km, will be brought under the metropolitan region. Of this 1,520 sq km will be taken up under the first phase
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Book review: The Egg and Sperm Race
Book>> The Egg and Sperm Race
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Mother tongues
Plans are being made to extend medical help to an octogenarian Nepalese woman who is the last known speaker of Dura. None of the rest in Soma Devi's family speaks this language, which belongs to the
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Landmark control
Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to a prestigious university in Rome in the face of hostility from some of its academics and students, who accused him of despising science and defending the
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Furry logic
A Dutch project management firm withdrew from the development of a new science park in the southern Netherlands saying its managers were consistently intimidated by animal rights protesters.
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Bhutan's CD ROM stamps
Bhutan has launched an innovative postage stamp to support its economic development and to preserve its pristine Himalayan environment at the same time. The stamps are actually mini- cd roms. When
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Small town
Heard of Thalaserry? It's a small town in North Kerala, where cricket was first played in India more than two centuries ago. Towns such as Thalaserry are not very well known. But that might
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Still rolling
Beijing has not done enough to control cars The Beijing city government is constantly evolving strategies to guarantee cleaner air in Beijing. "We have to take all possible measures
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Upadte
After a dramatic decline in population in the last decade, vultures are increasing in Nepal. A study by the Bird Conservation Nepal (<font class="UCASE">bcn</font>) says vulture nests have doubled in number in a year since the vulture feeding centres were initiated in the region (see
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No more rickety contraptions
The Union Ministry of Urban Development has chalked out a quality bus system plan, under which the bus rapid transit system project has started in eight cities
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C3 V C4
Carbon dioxide has a bearing on food supply. For example, some cereals are specifically adapted to low concentrations of carbon dioxide. Pascal-Antoine Christin and colleagues from the University of
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In Short
>> In a non-binding report, the European Parliament has given more time to car manufacturers for reducing CO2 emissions from tailpipes. Manufacturers should reduce the emissions to 125 grammes
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UK okays new generation nuclear plants
The uk government has approved construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants saying atomic energy could help fight climate change and secure the country's energy supplies in an unstable
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UK miffed at India turning down its climate change offer
that was a diplomatic googly which was suitably timed. In an interview to The Guardian on January 19, 2008, the uk's environment secretary Phil Woolas made a point on India's intransigence on
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Woolaspeak
"India is more difficult...it now reco-gnises the reality of man made climate change...does not put its shoulder to the wheel. Its basic attitude...are that western governments created the problem so western governments must solve it'. <br><br> "They point out that if you look at emissions per capita they are not a major emitter. The counter argument is that it is the total amount of emissions that actually matter. Because India is growing so fast
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free style: The Chinook salmon swam from the Pacific Ocean to the South Atlantic Ocean where they don't naturally occur, says a study. The study projected that the silvery predators with a "healthy