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Court allows disposal of illegal timber in N-E

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20/01/1998

The Supreme Court has allowed the disposal of "illicitly felled siezed timber" in the forests of the Northeast and eastern India in a phased manner. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice J S Verma

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F.D.A. is preparing to block unapproved cloning efforts

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20/01/1998

The Food and Drug Administration has a warning for the Chicago physicist who wants to clone a human: the agency intends to stop anyone who pursues such an experiment without its

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Seafood scare replaces bird flu in HK

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20/01/1998

Combating the deadly bird flu successfully by culling 1.4 million chickens and other poultry has apparently not eased Hong Kong's problems. Hong Kong is now facing a threat from seafood with 19

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Eco-friendly credit cards launched

Citibank and World Wide for Nature- India, launched for the first time in the country the "eco-friendly" credit card that supports environmental conservation causes. The affinity card, which features

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20/01/1998
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UPSEB pulled up by Supreme Court

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20/01/1998

The Supreme Court pulled up the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) for its failure to provide uninterrupted power supply to the ambient air quality monitoring stations at the Taj Mahal and

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CNG-run road project to get Govt backing

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20/01/1998

The Ministry of Environment and Forests is willing to support any bankable CNG-run public transport project in Delhi, said its secretary Vishwanath Anand. He was addressing a seminar on "Alternate

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US federal agencies enhance support to UNEP's North American Environmental Data and Information Programme

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20/01/1998

A ceremony was held at UNEP headquarters to publicly recognize the recent decision of several federal agencies to the North American node of the Global Resource Information Database of the United

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Japanese nuclear waste moved to French port, as U.S. congress members appeal to Clinton

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20/01/1998

Greenpeace criticised French nuclear company Cogema for ignoring growing public and political opposition by moving ahead with its plans for transporting high level radioactive waste from France to

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Kalpakkam atomic power plant to be expanded

The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam is to be expanded by installing a new 500 MW fast breeder reactor at a cost of Rs. 2,700 crores by

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20/01/1998
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Forest land encroachment

SC directs Patel Govt to file report : The Supreme Court has directed the Karnataka Government to file an action taken report(ATR) within two weeks on the encroachment of 3,309 acres of reserved

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