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BANGLADESH

Bangladesh's family planning programme has succeeded with a bang, claim officials. "We have been able to make quite a headway in birth control despite the fact that all the variables necessary for

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Hot achievement

The burning desire of Tiruchirapalli residents to safely get rid of mountains of hospital waste has now been fulfilled. The School of Energy Studies of the local Bharathidasan University has come up

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Groping for invisible matter

What we can see constitutes only about 10 per cent of the universe's mass. Where is the rest hidden?

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PAKISTAN

There seems to be a complete go-by for environmental laws

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Standards of waste

Importers of foreign waste will not be allowed to sully the environment anymore. The ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has alerted the directorate general of foreign trade (DGFT) to the

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Fouled waters

Even cattle dare not ingest the water of the Naini lake

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Russia shields smuggler scientist

Russia is stonewalling international investigations into a nuclear smuggling case in Czechoslovakia, complain Czech and Western nuclear regulatory authorities. On December 14, 1994, 6 pounds of

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Tiger strength

The Project Tiger lobby came together in a show of strength in the Capital at a meeting organised by the Ranthambore Foundation on February 17-18. Revealing their entrenched position, the

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New goat

An ungulate species belonging to an entirely new genus has been identified in Vietnam and Cambodia's northwestern districts (BBC Wildlife, Vol 13, No 1). German biologist Wolfgang Peter from

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Pirates' clipped wings

DNA fingerprinting will now turn the screws on illegal trade in birds in the uk. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British police have joined hands to bring the technique to

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