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Many families facing hardship in flood prone area
More than 150 families settled on state land in Kurunampitiya North and Anawasala Grama Niladhari areas in the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretary
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Food Scare Sparks Developing World Land Rush: Think Tank
High food prices fueled a land-buying spree in developing nations, particularly in Africa, by countries and private investors wanting to assure food supplies for themselves, a think tank said on Wednesday.
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seasonal shift Cherry blossoms early in Japan Japan
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Using LPG for irrigating fields
Faced witht eh growing shortage of power and increasing diesel prices, the farmers in the backward state of Madhya Pradesh are resorting to liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for irrigating their lands.
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Green norms eased for infra in 35 Red-hit dists
Thirty-five more Maoist affected districts will now be able to divert forestland for creation of critical public utility infrastructure like schools, hospitals, police stations and rural roads without
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Kochi Metro Rail chugs along
KOCHI: Giving a boost to the Kochi Metro Rail project, the state government has decided to constitute a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the implementation of the project. The state Cabinet which met on Wednesday decided to constitute the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd with the Chief Minister as its chairman. Once the company is registered, it will oversee the implementation of the project.
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Minister promises steps to increase forest cover in Tamil Nadu
CUDDALORE: The National Forest Policy has stipulated that 33 per cent of the total land mass should be forests, but Tamil Nadu has forest area of only 17 per cent, according to K.T. Pachamal, Forest Minister. All efforts would be made to extend forest cover to the mandated level within five years, he said at an official function held at St.
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Extreme climates to extend to more areas, warns study
The overall area experiencing either very dry or very wet conditions is showing a tendency to occupy a greater fraction of the Earth's land area as the globe becomes increasingly warmer. Even as
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Coastal belt paddy lands affected by tidal waves
Sri Lankan Agriculture department sources said that 259 hectares of paddy land had been destroyed due to tsunami tidal waves in the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western coastal belt. "The
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Central reservoirs unstable, quakes possible: geologist
A Professor of Geology (Sri Lanka)warned that attention should be paid to even slight earthquakes in the country as most of the reservoirs in the central hills had been constructed on land areas with
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Greens want White Paper on mining
Greens have urged the government to bring out a White Paper on illegal mining that has been going on in more than one lakh hectare of land in Karnataka, causing a huge damage to the fragile
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Over 30 Parties Submit Proposals For UK Nuclear Sites
Over 30 Parties Submit Proposals For UK Nuclear Sites UK: April 15, 2008 LONDON - Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said on Monday it had received proposals from over 30 parties interested in land surrounding 18 nuclear sites -- all potential locations for new power stations. The organisation would not reveal the identity of the bidders, although a spokesman for German utility RWE said it had made a pitch for some of the land.
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Bhimgad's biosphere
Manjunath Sullolli The Bhimgad Fort, in the village lands of Tanali, is built on a detached spur of the Sahyadris about sixteen miles south-west of Khanapur taluk of Belgaum district.
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Elephants go berserk at Valookkmala
While the Forest Department is yet to take steps to counter the increasing menace of elephants in the hilly regions here, the pachyderms have destroyed a large stretch of agricultural land at
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Increase forest to fight climate: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday emphasised the need for increasing forest land in the country to face climate change challenges. Hasina, also president of Bangladesh Awami League, was inaugurating a three-month 'Tree Plantation Campaign-2011' launched by Bangladesh Krishak League at her Gono Bhaban official residence in the city. She asked the Krishak League leaders and workers to enc
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Bicycle campaign against pollution off Amaravathy
KARUR: The People's Livelihood Movement has decided to undertake a bicycle campaign covering the district to create awareness among the masses of the ill-effects of industrial pollution choking the river Amaravathy on July 9 and 10. The movement has joined hands with the Amaravathy Ecology Conservation Movement to highlight the need to stop polluting the river and the lands irrigated by it.
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Himachal environment ministry gives clearence to Kashang hydel project
Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has granted environmental clearance under Forest Conservation Act 1980 for setting up 130 MW integrated Kashang stage II & III Hydro electric project in Lipa village of Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh.
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Delhi govt seeks SC intervention
Failing to convince the Haryana government to give a stretch of land in Faridabad for setting up a common facilities for disposing hazardous waste , the Delhi government has now decided to approach
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Zimbabwe land resettlement drive in deep crisis
Five years after the launch of Zimbabwe's fast-track land resettlement programme, the country's agricultural industry is in deep crisis