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UNFPA and Bhutan sign projects on reproductive health

The United Nation's Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Bhutan government signed three project documents, worth US$ 4.01 million on population and reprodutive

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Govt lowers vehicular emission level

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30/05/1998

The Nepalese government relaxed the standard for vehicular emissions without heeding to the recommendations made by the environmental experts with the Vehicular Emission Standard Review Committee

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Militant link in Shahtoosh smuggling

Kashmiri militants, Tibetan antelopes, a non-resident Indian and the ultimate fashion statement does not, at least at first glance, seem to gel. However, and unfortunately, they do and the gelling

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Digvijay will go ahead with tenders for diamond mining

Notwithstanding the Centre's decision to carve out Chhattisgarh state, the Madhya Pradesh government is going ahead with the follow up action on tenders invited for the exploration and mining of

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Biotech's secret garden

Bioprospecting-the age old search for medicines from nature-is taking on a new vitality as the tools of modern biotechnology are brought to bear : a

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The burning of Central America

Far less reported than Brazil's earlier Amazon fires, those in Central America have done far more damage. And the fault is not El Nino's, but

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HC issues notice to MPM on tree felling

The Karnataka High Court ordered issue of notice to the government and the Mysore Paper Mills (MPM) on a public interest writ petition which sought ban on tree felling by the mills in the Western

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Sick atomic unit in Rajasthan gets critical

The 200 MW second unit of Rajasthan Atomic Power Statgion, which was shut down in August 1994, has been made critical after successful en masse replacement of coolant channels and safety upgradation

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Damage caused by Indonesian fires, haze amounts to bilions

Damage from last year's Indonesian forest fires and haze over neighbouring countries until February amounted to $4.4 billion, two environmental groups said on Friday in the first scientific study

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Rural Rwanda's catastrophe give rise to an AIDS epidemic

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30/05/1998

Fanned by a decade of ethnic war and upheaval, a fast growing AIDS epidemic has broken out of this country's cities and is sweeping through the rural areas, health officials and aid workers say. Even

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