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CAG raps Delhi Govt

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has passed strictures on the Delhi Government for wasteful expenditure, inefficient utilisation of funds and slippages in the performance on several

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05/04/1998
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- Canada offers help in cleansing Sutlej

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05/04/1998

Canada has offered its expertise to Punjab in cleansing the Sutlej. Besides, it has offered help in various other areas including power generation and telecommunications. This was stated by Canadian

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- Five institutes offer forest management course

Five institutes led by the Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development presented a unique management course to effectively monitor vegetational changes and structure management decisions

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- Asia's largest heart hospital to be set up in Calcutta

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05/04/1998

This city will soon have Asia's largest heart hospital. The project, christened "Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Scineces" will be set up at Mukundapur, on the eastern fringe

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- Govt birds get an appetite

While many achievements of the Bharatiya Janata Party;s Delhi government are debatable, the government certainly seems to have succeeded in increasing the appetite of birds at its poultry farm as

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- Bangladesh battles hard to save the Sunderbans

The brackish water nourishing Bangladesh's Sunderbans supports a refuge for rare species, but their drinking grounds are getting saltier and the world's largest mangrove forest is facing serious

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- Beijing citizens to plant 1.5m trees

Beijingers will plant 1.5 million trees on Saturday in an effort to improve the environment in the Chinese capital, the China Daily

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- Dengue toll rises to 21 in Indonesia

Dengue fever has killed 21 people and infected thousands more in the Indonesian capital Jakarta since the start of this year, sparking fears of an

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- Greenpeace men charged

Three European members of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation and one Canadian were sentenced to 21 days in prison Friday for their activities in an anti-logging demonstration last

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- Court orders panel to look into temple pond pollution

Calcutta high court has passed an order directing to form a five-member committee to look into the pollution of Lord Shiva's pond Doodh Pukur in Tarakeshwar and prepare a strategy to clean the

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