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A US firm proposing to set up a project off the Tamil Nadu coast that will supply electricity and potable water from the ocean wants to be paid in dollars. Officials say this is equivalent to importing electricity.

Hungarians are raising environmental slogans against opening of the Gabcikovo dam's sluice gates by Czechoslovakia. The dam is built on the river Danube, which flows along the border between the two countries.

SHANKAR CHOWDHURY Coordinator, NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi - 110029 MULTIPLE ACTION RESEARCH GROUP (MARG) 113-A Shahpur

Sixty year old Shakur Khan lives in J P Nagar, one of the areas worst affected by the gas leak. Governmental callousness, fading vision and tuberculosis have compelled Khan to give up the tailoring that used to provide his income. His wife and eight child

CERTAIN wasps are inveterate nectar thieves. The wily insects sneak through the back door and loot nectar, damaging the flower and reducing chances of pollination and fruit formation (Current

A recent United Nations report absolves multinationals of the environmentalists' charge of shifting ecologically harmful industries to the South. Earlier, equally prestigious reports, claimed the contrary.

While the Central Bureau of Investigation tries to get Union Carbide convicted for mass murder, the multinational contends the gas leak was sabotage.

The flywheel is one of the options US car makers have in the search for better batteries to run electric cars that will meet future emission standards.

Mea culpa, says vatican

SANDALWOOD smuggling is raising quite a stink in Karnataka, where poacher-smuggler Veerappan has reportedly recruited three retired army personnel and a former BSF jawan to train other gang members