Liverpool to introduces 'green' burials
Liverpool has become the biggest UK council to introduce natural burials.Liverpool City Council has become the biggest in the UK to join the green burial movement as conventional cemeteries fill up,
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200 trees to be butchered
At least 200 fully grown trees will be butchered in Bangalore to make way for flyovers, grade separators and for widening roads as the Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BMP) implements its Mega City
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CMC puts doctors on Malaria alert
The health department of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation has appealed to the city doctors to be on the alert about patients suffering from fever, fearing an outbreak of malignant malaria this
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Sandalwood worth lakhs seized
After a dramatic chase and five rounds of fire, Superintendent of Police, Bangalore Rural, seized sandalwood bilets worth lakhs of rupees on the outskirts of the City last
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Navy officials compel govt to take up pollution control
Navy officials, worried that the smog of pollutants that hangs over the city of Mumbai would hamper visibility of the international fleet review, compelled the Maharashtra government not only to
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Air pollution falls heavy on B'desh
Bangladesh could avoid 15,000 deaths and save between 200 and 800 million dollars a year if air pollution in four major cities was reduced to acceptable limits, the World Bank
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HIV rate hits 30% for blacks, young gays
Thirty percent of young gay black men are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study of six large cities in the United
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Spl squad formed to curb illegal sand mining
The district administration has formed a special squad under the guidance of the City Commissioner of Police, Aluva rural SP and the armed police for curbing the illegal sand mining in various river
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Shangqiu still polluting Huaihe River
The city of Shangqiu in Central China's Henan Province is still polluting the Huaihe River. The river is a famous waterway in Central and East China, and it runs through several provinces. The
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Waterways population under TNSCB survey
A first step in an ambitious programme to remove the encroachment along the city waterways has begun with the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) taking up a formal survey of the population
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Delhi sitting on great garbage bomb, warn experts
Delhi is heading for an environmental disaster as mountains of garbage pile up in the city's once green open swathes, environmental experts
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Elephant strangled to death
A wild tusker was strangled to death during an operation by forest department to translocate it at manchenebele forests on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, a voluntary organisation reported. A
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NEERI completes EIA on garbage dump sites
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has completed it enviornmental impact assessment (EIA) of dump sites in the City and will bring out a final report in two or three
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CSL polluting city dangerously
report: The Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) is polluting the city and dangerously so. This was revealed by a study carried out by a Dutch firm Haskoning for CSL in an effort to 'help improve waste
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Bowring hospital conducts first knee replacement surgery
The Lady Curzon and Bowring Hospital in the City has successfully performed a knee replacement surgery on a woman and it is the first government hospital in the State to perform this complex
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Fresh gastroenteritis cases in Bangalore
Sixty-five fresh cases of gastroenteritis were reported at the Isolation Hospital on Old Madras Road on the outskirts of the City today following the outbreak of the disease three days ago. The
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Jaundice creeps into Capital
The summers are nearly here and with it has arrived jaundice. City doctors have reported at least 28 cases of jaundice from various parts of the
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UNDP in Uzbekistan launches effort to protect major city from air-borne pollutants
In response to requests from the local government of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, UNDP Uzbekistan has launched a project to protect residents of the city of Nukus from the toxic dust blowing in
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Malaria toll rises to 32
The malaria death toll in the city this year, according to Calcutta Municipal Corporation estimates, has risen from 18 to 25 until end October even as the figure in Shambhunath Pandit Hospital this
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Priority to prevention
The outbreak of gastroenteritis in Bangalore city and its suburbs calls for immediate action by civic authorities. There is the need to curb the spread of the disease immediately. The outbreak of