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- Factory pollution survey in Rajkot

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18/04/1998

The Municipal corporation will conduct a survey of factories that were polluting the environment. Students of Saurashtra University will be carrying out the survey.

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White scalps tingling

The Muckleshoot Indians are building a $30m, 23,000 seat amphitheatre, south east of Seattle. So far, however, it has mostly earned enimity. Hundreds of non-Muckleshoots who live near the

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- MCD plans to make law against littering tougher

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18/04/1998

The municipal corporation of Lucknow is now trying to clean up that city by providing dustbins and seeking to increase the fine amount for littering streets to Rs 500.

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An invaluable environment

Statisticians are trying to adjust measures of national wealth for pollution and depleted resources. This turns out be all but impossible : a report.

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Get off my frequency

In 1931, the telecommunication industry inadvertently gave birth to the new science of radio astronomy. Karl Jansky, an engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, was using an array of

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Greening the WTO

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18/04/1998

Conservationists were rightly angry when the World Trade Organization ruled on April 6 that the United States had violated international trade agreements by prohibiting shrimp imports from countries

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Almatti farmers urged to call of agitation

Major Irrigation Minister K N Nage Gowda today appealed to agitating farmers and leaders of various political parties seeking higher compensation for land and other property that would be submerged

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- State goes public to raise Rs 80 cr

The Government of Assam has gone public for a loan of Rs 80 crore to finance "productive development programmes and projects" to be implemented in the State, at an interest rate of 12.15 per cent per

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- Samsung set to launch CFC-free refrigerators

Korean conglomerate Samsung is all set to become the second refrigerator manufacturer after Whirlpool to launch its CFC-free refrigerators in the Indian market. The products would be available by

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- Fund likely to realise green dream

Prabhu : A unique Environment Fund is likely to be created soon to preserve the country's bio-diversity and enlarge India's depleting forest cover. Contributions from non-government bodies,

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