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Power grid plans to raise $100 million through ADB credit guarantee scheme

The power grid corporation of India Ltd. is considering a proposal to raise $100 million from the overseas market through Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) credit enhancement

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$1.35m UNDP loan for pollution control in steel industry

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide $1.35 million in two phases for improving pollution control facilities in the steel industry, according to sources in the steel & mines

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Deadly paddy disease hits Punjab districts

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16/12/1997

A deadly disease , which has afflicted the paddy, including basmati, crop in certain blocks of the border districts of Amritsar and Gurdaspur, has created panic among the farmers and concern among

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Homes scheme aims to recreate garden city movement

Proposals were launched to turn Britain's most controversial housing development into a testbed for environmentally friendly growth in the next century, matching the creativity that produced the

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Impotence pains

The principle for the National Health Service is easy. The practice is a great deal more difficult. Around the world, health systems have reacted in sharply differing ways to the arrival of Viagra,

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Thumb implant

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For the first time, doctors implanted bone cells engineered in a laboratory on a man's thumb on Friday, hoping to grow a new segment of bone where the thumb had been severed. The technique was

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Small hydel project sites in 25 states identified

Major hydel projects entail large-scale ecological disaster and human displacement . For regional and remote area development, the ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is promoting

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Actionaid suggests involvement of NGOs in kendu leaf trade in Orissa

Diospyros melanoxylon or kendu leaves, mainly used in bidi making, are again making news, particularly in Orissa. The state government, having realised its incompetence to handle both the commodity-

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$19.5-m IBRD aid for rural women's project

the World Bank has extended a line of credit amounting to $ 19.5 millions to the Government of India for a rural women's development and empowerment project, estimated to cost $53.8

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Cancer Control Programme on September 21,22

To create awareness and alleviate the fear of the community associated with cancer, the Delhi Government is organising the second phase of the Cancer Control Programme here on September 21 and

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