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The state government will not be able to go ahead with its proposal to relax silence zone regulations imposed around educational institutions, anti-noise campaigners said.

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Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi August 30, 2010, 0:25 IST It has been a quiet revolution. The country’s two leading beverage companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have dramatically slashed their usage of water to make a bottle of beverage, through innovative usage of technology. Just four years before, Coke factories consumed over four litres of water for every litre of beverage sold.

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The state government has prepared a strategy to provide 100-day job to 10 lakh most deprived families under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in this fiscal. "These targeted 10 lakh people would include 5 lakh the most poor families and the rest, 5 lakh, would be women," Secretary Rural Development Manoj Singh said here on Sunday. He said to start with the

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G Saravanan | ENS CALL yourself a green crusader? No? Well, here's your chance to "grant" yourself such a title.

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LONDON, PAK FLOODS UN still has to raise half its $460 million relief target THE United Nations says it has yet to raise half its $460 million target. The World Health Organization has received commitments for just 25 per cent of the $56 million it has asked for. One aid group has called donations from European countries "feeble".

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The Centre in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme has invited a request for proposal for ‘Innovation Pilot Initiatives’ from Non-Government Organisations/professional institutions for initiating a pilot project on leveraging the NREG for Human Development through inter-sectoral convergence or other innovative idea to strengthen implementation of the job guarantee sche

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As global focus shifts to energy efficiency, with the market for environmental products and services projected to touch $2.74 trillion by ’25, headhunters say about one million green jobs will open up in India alone over the next two years
Manu Balachandran, Sunainaa Chadha, Sreeradha Basu & Writankar Mukherjee
MUMBAI | KOLKATA

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BHUBANESWAR: After the Environment and Forests Ministry directed the State Government to stop all work relating to the Posco steel plant basing on the recommendations of a committee of NGOs, the State Government is waiting for the report of the Meena Gupta Committee which was constituted to go into the same matter again.

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HEALTHCARE activists plan to take union health ministry and the chemical & fertilizers ministry to the Supreme Court (SC) for failing to regulate prices of essential drugs, seven years after the apex court asked them to do so.

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A study conducted by a city-based NGO has revealed that suburban Kurla has reported the highest number of malaria, diarrhoea, dengue, HIV and other diseases in the last two years.

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