India

 Brain drain

Consuming vegetables contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides can lower a child s intelligence, warns a study

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Vegetables, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Children, Mental Health, Pesticide Residues, Research, India
Industry

 A healthy future

Walking improves mental faculties of the elderly

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Health Effects, Medical Research, Aged, Mental Health
India

 RELOCATION OF DAIRIES

The Delhi high court has ordered the city government to clarify its stand on shifting 2,600 unauthorised dairies from different parts of the city to a proposed dairy colony. The court also issued

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Dairy Development, Health Effects, Legislation, Delhi
Energy

 Safe fibres

A technique to create safe ceramic fibres

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Health Effects, Cancer, Ceramics, Research
Wildlife

 Everybody's a Loser

The World Trade Organization s recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a battlefield than for the controversial trade issues that were discussed. As the protestors grabbed the media s

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Environment Economics, Environment Politics, Health Effects, WTO, Child Labour, Unemployment, NGO, Developing Countries, Animal Products, Wildlife
Air Pollution

 Deafening silence

The dangerously high level of benzene in Delhi s air speaks volumes

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Air Pollution, Health Effects, Diesel, Petrol, Delhi, Toxins
India

 A change in scene

Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have filed a lawsuit in the US against Union Carbide Corporation and its former head Warren Anderson

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
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Health Effects, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Legislation, United States Of America (US), India
Air Pollution

 Counteractive

Do mosquito repellents have adverse health effects?

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
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Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Malaria, Vector Control, Research
Environment

 Stormwater channels

in a bid to provide the residents of Guwahati with some respite from water-logging and its consequent

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
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Waterlogging, Health Effects, Drainage, Urban Sanitation, Aid, Guwahati
Air Pollution

 FOLLOW UP

The National Institute of Radio

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
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Health Effects, Radiation, Nuclear Accidents, Research, Japan

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