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Hospitals flout waste disposal guidelines

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Calcutta city's government hospitals are violating the Calcutta Municipal Corporation's clinical waste-management guidelines, civic authorities said. Though they have the maximum number of beds,

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253 tanneries among polluting units closed in TN

More than 750 industrial units belonging to various categories were at present closed due to effluent problems, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. M. Karunanidhi told the

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40 per cent of Delhi lives in slums

About fourty per cent of Delhi's population is forced to live in sub-human conditions in the city's slums, a fact which formed the focus of a YMCA seminar on the growing rate of shanty colonies held

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Silent bone disease on the increase

Lifestyle and proper diet are some of the measures which help in the treatment of osteoporosis a silent disease. Osteoporosis, which affects the bones, is increasingly becoming common in India,

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Insure cash crops too

AP Assembly: The Andhra Pradesh Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Centre to include commerical crops under a Crop Insurance Scheme even as Opposition Congress and BJP members staged a noisy

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- US pushes environment, labour in trade talks

The United States will not allow labour and the environment to be dropped by the wayside in free trade talks with the rest of the Americans, Washington's top trade negotiator said on Wednesday. US

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US panel in disarray on tobacco bill

A senate panel has finally managed to nibble around the edges of a tobacco bill, but its meeting was chock full of shouting, name-calling and gavel-banging, mostly among Republicans. Then, when the

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Ministry moots plan to make polluters pay

The Ministry of Environment and Forests is considering a proposal to make coal based industries and hydroelectric projects pay for afforestation and protection of catchment and the command areas. The

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New system to cure genetic disorders

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20/03/1998

A cure against genetic disorders like diabetes, jaundice, hypertension and deadly diseases like cancer and hepatitis may finally be realised with the development of a targetted gene delivery system

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Indians, ecologists see apocalypse in Amazon fire

The midday sun burns red through the smoke rising from dozens of forest fires. For the Yanomami Indians, it's a sign of the apocalypse and environmentalists fear they may be right. The three month

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