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The Centre has agreed to provide Rs 630 crore to the Jammu and Kashmir Government as grant for the execution of the cash-starved state's biggest power project under execution at Baglihar. The Central

It is the Noah s Ark for the Internet era claims the site. The comparison may not, in some respects, be completely unjustified. ARKive is a digital library of images and sound recordings of endangered animals and plants. The idea is to store this audi

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With their reputation at stake, the soft drinks industry started a major public relations offence. After decades of some of the most glamorous and high profile lifestyle selling ad campaigns, it has now resorted to assuring its customers that its products

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast track development into what the state officially calls a cut off region hills submerged by the stilled waters of h

This paper presents and discusses primary data from a survey of 1,070 households in four poor settlements in Mumbai comprising slum-and pavement-dwellers and squatters on the living environment and health conditions. The study attempts to examine the consequences of socio-economic and environmental factors in terms of income, literacy, sanitation and hygiene for morbidity.

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The Kerala Pollution Control Board has been directed by the state government to investigate whether toxic materials are present in the sludge supplied as fertilisers to farmers by Coca-Cola from its

A delegation of farmers from Malaprabha river basin submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister S.M. Krishna urging the Karnataka State Government to link Mahadai, Kalasa, Banduri, Pootla and Halathara

Of halving the world’s undernourished by 2015 is ambitious. Here’s why:

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