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Maharashtra exempts Pune water supply project from sales tax

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The Maharashtra government has exempted equipment purchase of the Pune Municipal Corporation 's (PMC) Rs 735 -crore water supply project from sales tax. The examption will reduce the project cost

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Blazing into the next millennium

The 20th century is the hottest for at least a millennium, say scientists, amid concern that the new finding is evidence of global warming caused by man-made pollution . Phil Jones, of the University

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Sweden gets the bug

Computer-steered military planes, vessels and ground vehicles in Sweden might swere and crash on January 1, 2000 the Swedish defence department said on Tuesday. Military officials told the Stockholm

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Solar eclipse on Aug 22

An annualar eclipse of the sun will occur in the early hours of August 22 next. According to the meterorological centre in Bhubaneshwar, the eclipse will be visible in the country as a partial one

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US rocket explodes seconds after liftoff

A US Air Force Titan 4A rocket exploded in flames less than a minute after blastoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, the Air Force said. The Lockheed Martin Crop. built rocket, which blasted off was

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China plans to put humans in space?

China has extensive plans for the exploration and utilisation of space, including its announced intention to launch humans in space next year, according to a report by the Congressional Research

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Roslin institute denial

The Roslin institute, based in Edinburgh in England, has denied reports appearing in a section of the press that it had patented genes from the 'Venchur' breed of cows under conservation in the

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Monsanto's cotton seed to have second gene

Monsanto Co. is working with the Australian research organisation, CSIRO, to add a second gene to its Ingard gene technology, which fights insects that attack cotton crops, a scientist told a cotton

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Transport strike threatened

Commercial vehicle owners have called a strike tomorrow against the ban on vehicles older than 15 years. The ban is applicable from 2 October and the strike call is for the owners of such vehicles.

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Ministerial talks on Periyar dam today

Thursday's ministerial level talks between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the vexed Mullaperiyar dam isse would centre round the question of wheather to raise the water elvel of the dam above the 136 feet

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