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Call for tax on aviation fuel

European environmental groups stepped up their campaign for a tax on aviation fuels to reduce aircraft emissions by lobbying the first combined meeting of European Union environment and transport

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Industrial units blame HC, GIDC for pollution

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25/04/1998

The directives of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation and the High Court on curbing the pollution menace in the industrial areas ltself have been questioned with industrial units charging

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Nuclear cache from Georgia reaches Britain

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25/04/1998

A controversial shipment of nuclear material from Georgia arrived in Britain and was moved to a Scottish nuclear plant. The nuclear material, the subject of a secret deal by the United States,

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Panel moots compensation for loss of crop

The Joint House Committee which made an on-the spot study of the crop failure in Bidar and Gulbarga districts, has recommended to the Government to increase the quantum of compensation from Rs. 500 a

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NGOs oppose hazardous recycling operations

The Basel Action Network(BAN) - an international coalition of NGOs - has denounced a recent report of the U.S Government supporting continued export of U.S navy and other U.S. vessels to extremely

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Govt. urged to shut units polluting Kodai lake

Kodaikanal Lake Protection Council and Tamil Nadu Environment Council (TNEC) have urged the Government to immediately close down all the commercial and other establishments that pollute the lake till

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RiceTec files 3 patents on rice in India

Even as Indian authorities and agriculture scientists are trying to arm themselves with adequate material to fight the recent US patent obtained by RiceTec for what it claimed as a new basmati line,

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Dengue kills 422 in Jakarta

The death toll from an outbreak of dengue fever in at least 11 Indonesian provinces this year has risen to 422, a newspaper reported on

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Diabetics may be freed from insulin injection

Diabetic patients may no longer have to depend on insulin injections, say two scientists at the Allahabad University biochemistry department. They claim to have discovered a chemical which acts like

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- Pakistan's bid to persuade India to contest Basmati patent jointly

The Pakistani government will seek to contest jointly with the Indian government the grant of a patent on Basmati rice to an American firm, authorities said. Disclosing this, a senior officer at the

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