EU proposal on farm tariff restructuring
The European Commission presented a proposal on agriculture calling for a 36 per cent cut in export tariffs, 45 per cent cut in export subsidies and a more than 55 per cent cut in domestic farm
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U.S. hints at new pace for climate issues
Facing criticism over the pace and focus of the president's policy on global warming, Bush administration officials say that failure scientific findings could speed consideration of more aggressive
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A global climate and energy project
The Global Climate and Energy Project announced last month by Stanford University is a welcome collaboration between academia and the private sector that holds the promise of shedding much needed
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Survived by eating roots of wild plants
In some parts of Ethiopia, due to drought, people are not finding food to eat and so are boiling the roots of wild plants and eating. Generally this part of Ethiopia's meal comprises of milk, meat
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Time running out for millions as drought returns to Ethiopia
The village, in Ethiopia's remote, semi-arid West Harange lowlands, has nothing. This should be harvest time but its sorghum and maize crops are wilting or dead, its grain stores are empty and its
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Gap between words and actions on corporate environmental behaviour
Research carried out in conjunction with the Institute of Directors has revealed that there is a considerable gap between the words and actions of company directors where socially responsible
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Rising CO2 Could Cause Contradictory Effects
Multiple environmental changes, not just increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, must be considered in assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, conclude researchers at Stanford
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Industrialisation has adversely affected the lifestyle of residents
The massive industrialisation of Bahadurgarh in the last decade, a sub divisional town of the Jhajjar district, has not only led to an unprecedented growth in its population but also resulted in
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It pays to privatise civic services: Babu
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu stated that privatising sweeping of roads and garbage disposal had paid off for the government, as it was able to cut down on the salaries being paid
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BMC gears up to arrest air pollution
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) while ruling out the immediate shifting of the civic dumping ground in gorai to an alternative site as demanded by local residents, has announced a slew of
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Drought aid: Chhattisgarh passes buck on to Centre
In the face of severe drought conditions in the state, the Chhattisgarh government has decided to wash its hands of relief works and put the onus on the Centre. The state government has declared it
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Bawana ready and waiting for industries
Last year when asked by the Supreme Court to give a date by which it could shift polluting industries from the Capital, Delhi government had said the relocation would be completed by December 31,
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New dept to look after KBK block
The Orissa Government may create a separate department to look after the back of beyond of the KBK region comprising undivided Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput districts as a sop to the predominant
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Bhagidari gaining ground
Delhi state environment departments humming with activity. In the Bhagidari enterprises, it is not only taking along the government departments, such as Delhi Al Board, the state civic bodies and the
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Experts address ways to deal with earthquakes
The need for creating awareness among stakeholders about building structures that can withstand devastating earthquakes, was the focus of discussion at the two-day workshop on Professional Issues for
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Negotiations in TRIPs council on health issues hit a roadblock
Negotiations in the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPs) council on public health issues have hit a roadblock with Washington bent on restricting the scope of the coverage of diseases
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CIA checks if Baghdad obtained smallpox strain from Russian scientist
The CIA is investigating an informants accusation that Iraq obtained a particularly virulent strain of smallpox from a Russian scientist who worked in a smallpox lab in Moscow during Soviet times,
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Court orders retrial, stalls compensation to smoker
An Australian court on Friday overturned a smoker's historic legal victory over an international tobacco company and ordered a retrial - two months after the smoker died of lung cancer. In April,
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Roche wins EU nod for anaemia drug
Roche Holding AG, the biggest maker of cancer medicines, won European approval for a new use of its blood disorder medicine NeoRecormon in cancer patients. The European Commission granted marketing
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Water for Health Declared a Human Right
Safe and secure drinking water is a human right, a United Nations committee has declared formally for the first time. "Water should be treated as a social and cultural good, and not primarily as an