Life and death for the metropolis
The population pressures on Asia's cities is enormous. Although major cities are growing at about 2.5% annually, secondary and regional cities are swelling by as much as 4% each year from the rural
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The fate of the earth is ours
Environmental awareness is growing. But Asia still has a long way to go. And time may be running out. In terms of awareness Japan is certainly in the lead. In a recent survey by the Yomiuri Shimbun
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Votes only if Dal Lake is cleaned, say boatmen
Boatmen of the famed Dal Lake in Srinagar have set a condition to political parties if they want them to vote in the coming elections: clean the picturesque lake which is in danger of being
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Satellite systems rolls over
The network of navigational satellites known as the Global Positioning System quietly passed through a critical transition as its synchronized clocks rolled back to a date of zero, causing few if any
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Vitamin A to be given during anti-polio campaign
High potency Vitamin A is to be given to all children under five during the next national immunization day for polio vaccinations, it was learnt on Monday. The programme is to be run in collaboration
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Austrialian mine destroys rivers, global ban urged : The release by Australian mining company Broken Hill Proprietary of reports confirming severe environmental impacts of mine wastes dumped in Papua
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Warning about carbon monoxide from generators issued
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning hurricane victims in Texas that gasoline-powered generators should not be used indoors because of the risk of carbon monoxide (CO)
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Capital's first herbal park coming up
To protect and conserve rare plants of medicinal value, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to develop the Capital's first herbarium at Punjabi Bagh. To be set up over four acres, shrubs
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Waste management at Asiad village
The Union Minister for Urban development and Poverty Alleviation, Mr Jagmohan, has launched the first-ever initiative in public-private patnership in waste management at Asiad Village in
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Proposal to improve sewer network
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB-Metrowater) has proposed to execute works for improving the sewer network in two phases at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,010
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Structural experts examine Ahmedabad's buildings
It would take more than a month's time and tonnes of money to make Ahmedabad's buildings damaged in Friday's earthquake habitable, says a team of Vadodara's structural engineers who have just
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Nursing group presses for release of document on electrosurgical smoke
AORN, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (Denver, CO), is calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to release a bulletin about the use of lasers and
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Gastroenteritis cases reported from many areas
Gastroenteritis, symptomised by vomiting and diarrhoea, being reported from different parts of Pakistan, is different from cholera. Talking to APP on Monday, the Director- General, Health, Dr Ghayyur
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Texas company pleads guilty to ship channel discharges
FKP Inc., a company that owns and operates a gypsum pile along the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, TX, pleaded guilty on Aug. 16 in U.S. District Court in Houston to violating the Clean Water Act.
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Pollen allergy on the rise in twin cities
About 300 to 400 patients are daily visiting National Institute of Health (NIH) for Pollen allergy treatment which is caused due to cannabis and other traditional herbs in Rawalpindi and Islamabad
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Researchers weigh the risks of animal-to-human transplants
Novartis will publish a paper in the journal Science that could remove one of the last obstacles to putting the first pig organs into man. The company hopes the paper will allay fears that procine
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McDonald's protests urged in France
A radical French farmers' union called for a wave of demonstrations outside McDonald's fast food outlets to protest against US trade sanctions. A week ago, farmers ransacked the building site of a
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Indonesian coffee crop watered down
Unreasonably heavy rains earlier this year speeded up the recovery of most Indonesian crops from the devastating drought of 1997, but proved too much of a good thing for coffee and cocoa. Most
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Wells in Kolar are full of deadly nitrate
Nitrate, a deadly poison, is not supposed to be present in drinking water as it could cause the 'blue baby disease' in children. But it has crept into many borewells and dugwells in Kolar town of
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Causes of male infertility
A diet low in selenium could be one of the causes behind male infertility, according to a report in the US journal