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- U.K. set to get tougher over passive smoking

Passive smoking kills up to 80 babies a year in Britain and is responsible for several hundred deaths of non-smokers from lung cancer, a London government committee of scientists has said, It called

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- Scrap Indo-Bangla water treaty

BJP : With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) inching closer to forming a government in Delhi, the party's West Bengal unit is preparing to demand the scrapping of the December 1996 India-Bangladesh

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- Pakistan is 7th most populous in world

Pakistan is today the seventh most populous country in the world, with its current population estimated at 140 million. This information was given by the federal government on Thursday to the

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- Mars, with two huge bulges, discloses more evidence of water

Giant volcanoes taller than the tallest mountain on earth and canyons more deeper have been scanned by the Mars Global Surveyor mission orbiting the planet, scientists reported on Thursday. In the

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- 22 million rats killed in anti-pest drive

More than 22.3 million rats were killed in an all-out campaign to get rid of the rodents devastating Vietnam's crops in the first two months of this year, which amounts to nearly half the total

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- WWF package

The World Wide Fund for Nature, India has announced its new package for the farmers living in the vicinity of tiger reserves in the country. Addressing a press conference senior WWF officials said

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- For Delhi's bus drivers health is not wealth

For the men behind the wheels of buses in the Capital, life is not exactly a roller coaster drive. The extracts from a recent survey conducted by Iqbal Maliq on the health of the bus drivers of the

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- Clinton's Kid's Act will reduce teenage smoking

President Bill Clinton, on Thursday, endorsed a bipartisan Senate Tobaccco Bill that takes a new track on the vexing problems of industry legal protections,and aims to slash teen smoking in half,

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Adulterated milk may damage intestines and kidneys

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Adulterated milk being supplied by the villages to Kanpur city is found to be adulterated by harmful chemicals like formalin .Medical specialists warn that this may affect the health of the people

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- Fall in ground water level likely in Calcutta

Sharp fall in the ground water level might lead to subsidence in some parts of the city in future, according to a survey conducted by German engineers here. The German firm, AWE Engineers was

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