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Demand for tiger parts in Chinese medicine rising

Twenty-eight years after Project Tiger was launched, the striped feline no longer faces the threat of extinction, but in some areas the situation is alarming due to rampant poaching and steady loss

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Platinum 'could be extracted from road dust'

Platinum pollution from catalytic converters in cars has already built up to astonishingly high levels in UK cities, the British Association meeting heard in Cardiff. It will soon become commercial

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Viagra may hit health service potency

That the drug Viagra has the capacity to add life to flagging sex lives in not in doubt. Less clear is whether the pill and other lifestyle drugs that are bound to follow it - could have a rather

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Venkataraman to inaugurate city NGO meet

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12/12/1997

Former President R. Venkataraman will inaugurate a national convention of NGO's which will focus on issues like Panchayati Raj, open market policy, environment and socio-political issues."More than

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25,000 lite acid tributary feeds Yamuna every day

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12/12/1997

It is an industrial ghetto. The 1,000 electroplating units in the Anand Parbat Industrial Area crackle and hiss as dull iron gets a coat of shiny white aluminium. Hangers, utensils, doorlatches lie

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1,991 people afflicted by dropsy so far

As many as 34 persons were admitted in the various hospitals of the Capital, for treatment of dropsy, while 50 were admitted yesterday, and 42 discharged, taking the total to 1,991 ever since the

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Separate power lines for tubewells in Haryana planned

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12/12/1997

In a determined bid to improve the availability and quality of power supply to the tubewells, the Haryana Government has asked the recently-constituted Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam to erect separate

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Aravalli forest cover shows big increase

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12/12/1997

study: A comparative study of the satellite imageries of the Aravalli area adjoining the capital has revealed that there has been a phenomenal increase in its total green cover from 9451 hectares in

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Kuwait funded irrigation project making progress in Ningxia

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12/12/1997

A Kuwait-funded irrigation project in northwest China's Ningxia, has been progressing smoothly with first-phase sub projects to start trial operation next month. The whole project, China's biggest

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1176 industrial units marked as enviornment pollutants

The Department of Environment and Pollution (DEP) in Bangladesh has issued warning to 1176 polluting mills and factories across the country, for dumping untreated hazardous wastes. These industrial

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