RM40m project revived for flood-hit Penang
The Federal Government has revived a RM40mil flood mitigation project as Penang (Malaysia) began recovering from floods and landslides yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri
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Studies find new dangers for athletes
Two or more significant blows to the head received while playing sports can harm teen-agers' thinking abilities for years, and young athletes with learning disorders appear to suffer
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Major quake hits Athens
The strongest earthquake to hit Athens in nearly a century toppled buildings Tuesday afternoon, sending hundreds of thousands of terrified people into debris-littered streets. At least 30 people
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New York city mosquito control is weak and late, experts say
New York City has one of the least aggressive mosquito-control programs in the region, with virtually no preventive maintenance and a budget that is less than 6 percent of that in nearby Suffolk
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Forest officials seize 186 turtles in MP
Officials of the Andhra Pradesh forest department have seized 186 tortoises which were being illegally transported from Gannavaram of Konaseema area near Rajahmundry to Raipur in Madhya
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65-km heritage site proposed along the Ganga
An experts' committee of the Ganga Action Plan, a state-sponsored programme to save the Ganga, has suggested that a 65 km stretch of the river in West Bengal, as in other states, be declared a
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Nation's first marine park risks denotification
The Union gvernment's pressure on the state (Gujarat) to denotify the country's first Marine National Park located in the Gulf of KUtch for industrial activity, may just spell doom for this prized
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Farmers choose election day to vent their ire
Farmers residing in the areas around Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) abstained from voting on Sunday to protest against the dumping of chemical industrial effluents on their
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Union carbide factory to become a memorial
The premises of Union Carbide factory here would soon be developed as a memorial to remember the Bhopal gas disaster victims of December 1984, that claimed several lives and left hundreds others with
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"Green bridge"
A Ghaziabad-based irrigation engineer has designed a "green bridge" to save elephants of Rajaji National Park (RNP)from a killer railway track. His proposed civil engineering "solution" comes in the
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Contaminated water kills 10 in Ghaziabad
At least nine children and a woman have died of symnptoms which resemble gastroenteritis during the last 12 days . There are also reports of at least 150 persons suffering from diarrhoea and
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Poor monsoon hits oilseed crops
Deficient rainfall reported in several parts of the country during the current monsoon season has affected kharif crop prospects, according to senior agriculture ministry officials. The worst
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WWF tiger project not scrapped
Govt :Contrary to the impression created by an ongoing controversy between World Wide Fund for Nature- International and WWF-India, the tiger conservation programme has not been scrapped-- nor is it
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Quake rocks Turkey again, seven killed
A strong tremor rocked north-west Turkey today, killing at least seven and injuring over 200. Thousands rushed for open ground in a region devastated by an earthquake four weeks
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EU 'must speed up action on aircraft noise'
A top US trade official called on the new European Commission to work swiftly to withdraw a controversial regulation on aircraft noise that the US says discriminates against its
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How we fight a losing war
In the Central-Western Canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, the few remaining peasants have a choice. They can cultivate corn on barren cliffs, or they can receive 300 pesos for each
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Opposition to transgenic foods
The power of consumer resistance has forced two of the world's largest food companies, Nestle and Uniliver, to phase out sales in the U.K. of products made with genetically engineered ingredients.
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AIDS ability to invade brain causes concern
Mr. Richard T. Johnson, professor of Neurology at John Hopkin's Hospital,Maryland, U.S., says mmost of the brain infections, including neurological complications that result from AIDS, were
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War of Singhs endangering tiger conservation
It's the war of two Singha that could well endanger the tiger. Last week's notification by the Environment Ministry to World Wildlife Fund, threatening to stop the Tiger Conservation Project(TCP)
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AIDS cases on the rise among student population of Mumbai suburb
Experts: With a large protion of the 10,000-odd students in the satellite township known to be sexually active, and consequently vulnerable to contracting the HIV virus, experts and doctors say the