This Diwali, you can choose your decibel
This Diwali when you shop for your arsenal of crackers, you can choose between the loud and the not-so-loud ones. The ministry of environment has instructed crackers manufacturers to specify the
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An unusual craving for tomatoes could mean anaemia
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Arsenic found in rice products too
Studies have revealed high arsenic levels in rice and rice products such as rice bran and rice crackers. A study published in April 2008 in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reported high levels of arsenic in baby rice sold in supermarkets in the UK. The samples of products they tested came from Japan and the US. The study revealed that 35 per cent of baby rice samples
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Firecrackers not up to the mark
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Acrylamide for snacks
Starch rich foodstuff can become carcinogenic when exposed to high temperatures
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Gas Cracker Project on time: Centre
The Centre has denied that the Gas Cracker Project has suffered delays claiming that the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymers Limited (BCPL) would start production according to schedule by 2012.
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GAIL to register JV within December
GAIL, the major stake holder in the proposed Mega Gas Cracker Project to be set up at Lepetkata in Dibrugarh district, is all set to register the joint venture (JV) company as Brahmaputra Cracker and
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Noise level was high and celebrations went past 12
The noise level in Delhi went up this Diwali and crackers were burst until well past midnight. The successful no-cracker campaign of the last few years seems to be showing signs of flagging. Many
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'Cracker cops' on the move
Shopkeepers selling crackers, beware! There is a "cracker police" doing the rounds of the city and those found flouting the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms will be reported to the local
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Dangerous crackers
The Supreme Court has issued a direction banning the manufacture and sale of crackers which make noise in excess of 125 decibels. Many cracker manufacturers, who are mostly in Tamil Nadu, have
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Can noise, air pollution ever be checked?
Though the civil administration of Guwahati city clamped a blanket ban on all sorts of crackers and sealed three whole-seller firms dealing in crackers, little it could do to bring about a change in
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High-noise crackers banned
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued directions for keeping noise and air pollution caused by the fire-crackers within a limit, including restricting bursting of crackers between 6 pm and 11 pm
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Certain types of crackers banned
To ensure public safety and prevent noise pollution, the Bangalore police has banned the sale and use of certain types of fire-crackers from October 15 to 23, and also prohibited bursting of crackers
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10,000 Bangalore children will not burn any crackers
Even as city traders claim there is a dip in their cracker sales this year, nearly 10,000 children of the Bapu Girls' Composite College at Yeshwanthpur have taken an oath not to burst crackers this
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Crackers over 90 decibels banned
Fire crackers with sound levels of above 90 decibels at five metres from the blast-point have been banned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. People can burst crackers and display fireworks
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Anti-cracker rally by DPS students
The students of Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, on Thursday organised and anti-cracker rally and vowed to shun crackers and appealed to all children to light lamps instead. The rally was organised
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Cracker norms being flouted in Ghaziabad
The local administration has completely failed to implement the Supreme Court directives on cracker bursting hours. Just two days before Diwali, cracker sound could be heard well past midnight. The
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Fear of a quake?
over 1,000 residents of Gondegaon village, about 55 kms from Nasik, are living in perennial fear of an imminent earthquake. The fear gripped the village after a stream of the Damanganaga
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Meet on environment favours early start of gas cracker project
The speakers at the environmental public hearing organized at the Ranghar auditorium of Dibrugarh University for a detailed discussion on the environmental effects of the Gas Cracker Project at
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Gas cracker project gets environment clearance
The Pollution Control Board, Assam has given its no objection certificate to reliance Assam Petrochemicals Limited to set up the gas cracker project at Lepetkatta near