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- Madhya Pradesh government orders review of Maheshwar hydel project

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03/03/1998

One of the first privatised hydel power projects in the country, the Maheshwar Hydel Power Project, has faced a setback with the Madhya Pradesh government recently ordering stoppage of work and a

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- Private parties role in plantation stressed

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03/03/1998

Senior officers of the Forest Department have said that private parties should step forward in the field of plantation for improving the environment. The Forest officers expressed this view while

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- Pollution- control drive launched

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03/03/1998

A nine-day pollution control campaign for the northern sector was launched by Lt-Gen S C Chopra, Chief of Staff Headquarters, Northern Command, at a function held at Udhampur today.

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- ICAR to expand institute-village linkage plan to 70 centres in 5 yrs

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) plans to expand institute-village linkage programme (IVLP) to 70 centres in the next five years.

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- Agricultural extension services look up with $239m World Bank project

Agricultural extension services in the country will be stepped up with commencement of the $239 million World Bank funded national agricultural technology project (NATP) from April

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- Bedthi project; MLA opposes govt move

Ankola legislator Visweshwar Hegde Kageri has decided to launch a protest against the government order asking the police to provide protection to the private firms conducting surveys for the Bedthi

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- Basmati blues

It had to happen, India has reacted strongly to the US Patent Office granting Ricetec, an American company, a patent for Basmati rice and has decided to examine various possible remedial options. The

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- Dangers lurk behind food colours ; study

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03/03/1998

Don't be tempted by colourful foodstuffs stacked on the shelves of roadside eateries, warn scientists. These colours can cause damage to liver, kidney, heart as well as skin, eye, lungs and bones,

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- Puri hotel business offers a bright future for the new entrants

It is boom time for the small and medium size (upto three star) hoteliers in Puri, the temple town of Orissa. Tourists from across the country and abroad perennially throng this historic city,known

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- Malihabadi mango-growers allege apathy

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03/03/1998

Abdul Hamid Khan, a zamindar of Raiban Khera village, would have little realised that the dussehri mango sapling that he had grafted at Kakori in the latter half of the 19th century , with the

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