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 Skilled hands turn waste bark into art

The planting of commercially valuable chir trees has become embroiled in controversy in Ultar Pradesh's Almora district. But a local schoolteacher has found a novel use for its discarded bark.

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14/04/1993
Amit Mitra
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 Wetlands get protection

The West Bengal Assembly has adopted legislation barring the filling up of wetlands that exceed 0.035 ha in the state's notified urban areas. The ecological importance of these wetlands

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14/04/1993
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Wetlands, Urban Habitat, Legislation, India
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 "We will drive out multinationals"

M D Nanjundaswamy, president, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha.

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14/04/1993
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 Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

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14/04/1993
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 BST side effects denied

Eminent immunologist G p Talwar , firing the latest salvo in the bovine somatotropin (BST) controversy, asserts there are no harmful side-effects to the artificial growth hormone whose use

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14/04/1993
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Cattle, Milk, Health Effects, Drugs, India, Delhi
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 "Our objective is an open society"

Sharad Joshi, Shetkari Sanghatana

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14/04/1993
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 Simple systems available to treat sewage

Planners should be made aware of easy techniques that can recycle waste water using little electricity.

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14/04/1993
Soli J Arceivala
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 WWF sues Thapars

Controversy continues to dog the helicopter crash in Corbett National Park last year, with the Indian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) filing a case recently in Delhi High

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14/04/1993
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 "Market forces will end many rackets"

Bhupinder Singh Mann, MP,ABharatiya Kisan Union

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14/04/1993
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 Gas tragedy blame

The Union and Madhya Pradesh governments have been ruled culpable by a Rome-based tribunal of violating the rights of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The Permanent People's Tribunal

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14/04/1993
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