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• 17 Chinese fisherfolk, who were arrested and convicted for poaching in Philippine waters off Palawan, have been pardoned by President Arroyo as they were "first-time offenders'. • Hong
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One hour deadline
China's environment watchdog, the State Environmental Protection Administration (sepa), has recently asked industrial units and local officials to report environmental accidents to it within an hour
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Not fine
A soft-drink manufacturer was recently fined by a magistrate's court for leaking a purple, frothy, fruity-smelling discharge into the Wash Dike stream in West Yorkshire. The manufacturer, Cott
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NPM works
Raghuveera Reddy, farmer and agriculture minister, Andhra Pradesh
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Noisy and smoky Diwali this year
MAHARASHTRA Pollution Control Board recently released a collated report on air and noise pollution during the three days of Diwali celebrations (October 21, 23 and 24) this year. The noise level was
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National bird in danger
The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) has fallen on bad days. Birdwatchers ascribe this to pesticide contamination of food, poaching and habitat loss. The bird is hunted throughout its range in
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Deft operators
Delhi's parking managers Ram Prasad (name changed) came to Delhi more than 20 years ago from Uttar Pradesh and started working as a parking attendant at a commercial centre in Delhi. He soon
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Dreams of empire
Sterlite Industries of India Limited and Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) are subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources Plc, a publicly-traded British metals and mining company owned principally by
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Not very exacting
Regulations ignore key technical parameters While new norms are adopted, durability requirements and in-use compliance measures are not strengthened to ensure that vehicles remain low emitting
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Replicator
Inspired by the Sukhomajri model, the Integrated Watershed Development Programme-Hills (IWDP) replicated it on a large scale. Funded by the World Bank, IWDP was initiated in five states in the
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Toxic, to date
Thank you, gold rush
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Stronger curbs
On pesticide in France
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Seeds of justice in Bihar
Seed major Monsanto has been held guilty for supplying Bihar's farmers with bad quality hybrid maize seeds two years ago and causing them huge losses. A House panel of the state government recently
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The yarn of justice
The us defeat is final now. On March 3, 2005, the World Trade Organization (wto) appellate body upheld a ruling that condemned the us government for providing illegal export subsidies to its
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Dam referendum
Residents of Rio Hondo municipality in Guatemala's eastern department of Zacapa recently rejected a hydroelectric plant on the Colorado river through a referendum. "We say no
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Hybrid cars take over
Toyota has announced that in future, 100 per cent of the manufacturer's new vehicles will be hybrids, running on both electricity and traditional fuels. Japan's largest and the world's second-largest
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Power and people
China plans to turn the Nu River in southwest Yunnan province with a chain of up to 13 hydropower stations, into a hydroelectric hub. The government's release of a five-year development plan draft
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Nesting rights
An animal rights group in the us has filed a lawsuit against United Illuminating Co (uic) in Connecticut, US, seeking to stop removal of monk parakeet nests from utility poles. Filed in the New
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In court
lawsuit filed: About 100 companies involved in snow-crab fishing in Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada, have filed a us $ 135 million lawsuit against the federal government. Filed in the Court of
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freshness sensor: Grocers, florists and even pharmacists may soon have a better way to monitor the quality of products they get from suppliers: a sensor that will tell when a product spoils. A