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- Solid waste disposal a challenge for Tirupur dyers

The immediate fallout of the Madras High Court Green Bench's ruling last month providing a final three months deadline for operationalising the pollution control measures for the Tirupur dyeing

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- 'Boat protest' against power project in Karnataka

The Tannirbhavi village on the bank of the Gurupura river in the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka today witnessed a "boat protest" amidst police security against the location of a 170-MW

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- Panel to study drinking water problems

The Kerala State Government has decided to appoint a high-level committee to study and make recommendations for solving the drinking water scarcity faced by the State. This was announced by the Chief

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- New satellite to help monitor Asian rice crop

A $590-million satellite blasted into orbit on Tuesday will help Asian nations improve rice crop monitoring and avoid price rises if they fail, the spacecraft's operators have said. "We will help

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- Ministry mulls core status for captive coal mines

The coal ministry is planning to put up a proposal by which captive coal mines would be accorded infrastructure status. The Minister of state for coal, Mr Dilip Ray, said that the ministry is

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- Barnala may tear up Aussie wheat import contact

The $280 million wheat import contract from Austria faces termination with Prime Minister A B Vajpayee asking the food ministry to send a status report on the situation as it may have serious legal

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- Beleagured Sanghi jetty project sights hope

There is fresh hope for the beleagured Rs 800-crore Sanghi Cements Project as a team from the ministry of environment and forests leaves for the Sanghi Cement jetty site in Kutch to finalise

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- EC imposes duty on cotton fabrics from India, 5 others

The European Commission has imposed provisional anti dumping duties on imports of unbleached cotton grey fabrics from India, China and Pakistan, besides three other countries. A decision to impose

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- Fishermen protest Tanneerbhavi project

Hundreds of fishermen including a large number of women staged a novel protest against the proposed barge-mounted power project at Tanneerbhavi near Mangalore today, by taking out a procession of

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- India alcohol & drug project wins ILO applause

A multisectoral project currently being implemented across India to help alcohol and drug and addicts and to prevent addiction at the workplace has won fulsome praise of a key United Nations

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