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-UP accepts World Bank terms for power loan

The ailing Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) is in for a major shake-up with the state Bharatiya Janata Party-led government determined to meet the conditions for a Rs 15,000 crore World

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Intelsat in satellites sell-off plan

Intelsat, the inter-governmental satellite organisation, announced it would spin off five satellites plus one under construction, creating a privatised company called New Skies Satellites. The

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- Rs 11 cr sunk on Dhing project

The much vaunted sack craft paper industry in Dhing in Nagaon district, which was a brainchild of the then Industries Minister Digen Bora, has cost the State Government a cool Rs 11 crore since 1987

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- Van Gujjars implicated in false cases

The Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) today accused the 'forest bureaucracy' of Uttar Pradesh of trying to sabotage the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved project for

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UN to finance plan for aiding China's rural women

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01/04/1998

China and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) will jointly launch a program next month focusing on improving reproductive health and family control in rural China. A total of 32

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NPC chairman urges expanded protection of water resources

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01/04/1998

Li Peng, Chairman of the Standing Committee of Chinese National People's Congress, called for expanded publicity of the Water Law to ensure an effective nationwide use of water resources. Li marked

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Can HMG fish in the country's largest fishery

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01/04/1998

As the date for the termination of JICA assisted Natural Water Fisheries Development Project (NWFDA) nears, Japanese and Nepali experts working in over one billion yen project fear whether the Nepali

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ADB technical assistance to Nepal

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01/04/1998

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a technical assitance grant of US Dollar 800,000 to assist the government to undertake reforms in the urban water supply sector to ensure sustainability of

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- Unhygenic food caused jaundice outbreak

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31/03/1998

The Chief Medical Officer and Health officer has informed that the outbreak of jaundice in the Durg district for the past one month has been brought under control. It could be recollected that

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- Move to double protected forest area

The Forest department proposes to double its protected forest area from the present 6000 sq km and has sought the sanction of the Ministry of Environment and Forests to declare eight areas in the

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