Delhi's foul war
The Delhi government is in the process of completing the latest phase of a hasty cleanup drive-prodded by an activist Supreme Court. Fed up with years of executive inaction on a 1996 court order to
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They're burning animals again
In the face of foot-and-mouth disease and BSE, Europeans cannot simply reject modern intensive agriculture and turn organic : a
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Cholera cases on the rise
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Delhi Jal Board are working in tandem to tackle the menace of cholera which has been accentuated with the onset of
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Deep impact
Once confined to a handful of practitioners tucked away in Chinatowns, acupuncture has blossomed into a widely accepted treatment in the United States : a
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HC demands report on waste disposal
The Delhi High Court today asked the civic authorities to sort out the matter of solid waste disposal and report the matter within 10
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All Haryana distilleries now closed
With the closure of Ashoka Distillery at Hathin in Faridabad district, all five distilleries in Haryana are now closed for alleged failure to take anti-pollution
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Green revolution fizzling out
Report : The effects of the green revolution appear to be wearing thin in Punjab and Haryana as a committee of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has observed deline in productivity of
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The cruelest curse
For over a decade, South Africa has been a country in denial. The result is that it now has more HIV-positive people than any other in the world. It is at last coming to terms with the appalling
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Polluting units' closure renders garbage collectors jobless
Private garbage collecting agencies are down in the dumps. The crackdown on polluting industries had meant that their source of "demand" has dried up, making it difficult for them to sustain their
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Spinal cord found in another beef import
British meat inspectors found another consignment of beef imported from the Netherlands containing spinal cord, which is banned under the European Union rules to protect consumers against BSE, or mad
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A blustering giant turns oddly coy
Once an environmental bully, China is quietly moving to clean its coal-tarnished image. Some of its motives may be dubious but the results are compelling. So why does China play down its
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World's urban growth under threat
Cities generate population, consume resources and produce waste out of proportion to the amount of the earth's land they occupy, says a new report from the Population Institute. Werner Fornos,
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Earthquakes will come
By almost any standard, Seattle, Tacoma and the rest of the northwest Washington escaped Wednesday's earthquake with damage that was only a fraction of what it might have been. This earthquake
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Govt mulls ways to save sanctions-hit projects
The government can stave off the adverse impact of sanctions on the Indian economy to a large extent by changing the financing pattern of projects awaiting aid from multilateral agencies.
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Government 'failed to fund vital BSE study
The UK government turned down applications for "vital" research work on BSE in 1991 from a leading authority on the condition and related illnesses, the BSE inquiry was told at the
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Plague island
This week's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) left UK feeling like a plague island. Although FMD inevitably brings bovine spongiform encephalopathy to mind, it is a different order of problem.
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Effluent water treatment plant to be established at Hazaribagh
The Bangladesh government decided to establish a central effluent water treatment plant in the city's Hazaribagh leather hub as soon as possible to control environment pollution. It also planned to
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95 asked to vacate encroached forest land
Deputy Conservator of Forests,Karnataka, A M Annaiah has said that 95 people who had allegedly encroached forest land had been served notices to vacate them immediately.Speaking to the press here
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Solar carpet to swell harvest for wine growers
French scientists have designed a "solar carpet" that fits beneath vines and helps grapes ripen. The covering known as "solid smoke" is made from materials such as silica and
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China prepares to take plunge as sea power
China is setting its aspirations at maritime prowess. The United Nations Conventions of the Law of the Sea, which allows nations an exclusive economic zone 200 nautical miles off the coast, went into