Mymensingh region free from leprosy disease
Leprosy, one of the major health problems in Bangladesh is being uprooted from Mymensingh, Netrakona and Kishoreganj districts of the Mymensingh
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Top Swedish environment honour for Indian
Indian environmental scientist Amulya K N Reddy has been awarded the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize 2000, an honour considred akin to a Nobel Prize for
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Bangla flood damages may cross $500 million, says aid agency
Floods which have ravaged southwestern Bangladesh will cause damage or losses of at least $500 million to crops, fish farms, property and infrastructure, according to estimates on
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Green bench pulls up pollution panel
The green bench of Calcutta High Court on Friday came down on the state pollution control board (PCB) on Friday for not taking any measures against industrial units polluting air and water. In its
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Total of flooded houses in UK reaches 6,000
Almost 6,000 properties in Britain have been flooded by the foul weather in the past fortnight, a government body said on Monday. The Environment Agency reported the scale of the damage caused by
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US Marines seek families in Lejeune water case
The U.S. Marine Corps said on Wednesday is was trying to notify an estimated 10,000 families who lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, between 1968 and 1985 that they may have been exposed to water
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Biotechnology sparks a patents turf war
The hopes of middle-aged men across Britain this week were dashed after initial reports that the country was about to be flooded with cheap copies of the impotence pill Viagra porved to be
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Railways on de-greening spree
The Ambala Division of the Northern Railway has resorted to the "wanton destruction of green cover at some of its railway stations, yards and even Divisonal Office in Ambala" on the pretext of
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Riverbed encroachments 'caused' floods
The riverbed encroachments on the downstream of the Siswan caused floods that inundated nine villages of the area and rendered about 1000 villagers homeless, in July this year.According to an inquiry
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US, Russia to hug the polar bear
The United States and Russia, concluding several years of negotiations, are signing an agreement on Monday to increase the protection of polar bears in the Arctic region of northeastern Siberia and
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As Unicef battles formula makers, infants become ill
The issue of whether and how infant formula should be made available to poor African mothers has become mired in an incendiary debate that appears to be driven more by politics and ideology than by
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GoM set up to deal with droughts
A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, has been set up to deal with the problem of recurring drought across the country, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan
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Action plan mooted to deal with quake
Jabalpur's district administration has drawn up a comprehensive action plan to minimise the fallout of the earthquake and launch rescue and relief operations on a war footing if a quake rocks the
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New variety of rice developed
The Regional Agricultural Research Station, Titabar, has developed a new variety of rice -Prafulla which can withstand the vagaries of
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Russia ice-cream is anti-diarrhoea
Russian scientists in Siberia have developed a medicinal brand of ice cream they say not only tastes good but guarantees relief from stomach bugs that cause
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Plant patents raise fear of 'biopiracy'
An apparent U-turn by the European Union could help farmers in developing countries, by moving against the controversial practice of patenting plants or plant genes - a practice known to its
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Burma ignores its AIDS crisis
No country in Asia is in deeper denial over AIDS than Burma. As neighboring Camodia and Thailand marshal their meager resources to combat the spread of AIDS, the generals who rule Burma have chosen a
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Jabalpur included in RCH project
Union government has approved the Reproduction and Child Health Project (RCH) for three cities in Madhya Pradesh including Jabalpur. The project aims at controlling infant mortality
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The hidden freshwater crisis
Toxic chemicals are contaminating groundwater on every inhabited continent, endangering the world's most valuable supplies of freshwater, reports a news study from the Worldwatch Institute, a
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Effluents may wash away Naidu's Tank Bund dream
If the protests don't, then the industries will. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu may be so far ignoring the protests from environmentalists against the move to convert Hussainsagar into an