Environment

Eco-friendly Durga idol immersion in C R Park, Delhi, 14 October 2013

Dakshin Palli Durga Puja Samiti of Chittranjan Park, Pocket 52, New Delhi decided to go green this year and took a decision not to immerse the idol in the river Yamuna. This video shows immersion of the biodegradable idol of Goddess Durga in large tank made of galvanized iron sheets.

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Durga Puja, Festival, Environment, Water Pollution, Water Pollution Control, Delhi, Religious Beliefs, South Asia
Environment

Indians add green touch to religious festivals

Indians add green touch to religious festivals

Publication Date: 
07/09/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
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Environment, Religious Beliefs, Paint, Toxic Wastes, Toxins
Energy

 News snippets

>> On April 16, the Anti-vivisection League, an animal rights group in Italy, asked Pope Benedict to stop wearing fur as a sign of respect for the "sacredness of all living species'. The Pope

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Down to Earth
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Pollution Control, Animal Cruelty, Afforestation, Religious Beliefs, Energy, Electricity, Media, NGO, Italy
Mining

 Protest against mining plans in Q'oyillur Riti Sanctuary

More than 2,000 members of a religious sect recently marched up to the district of San Jeronimo, near the city of Cuzco in the southeastern Peru, to protest an official mining exploration request,

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Down to Earth
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Mining, Conflicts, Religious Beliefs, Sanctuaries, Peru
Mining

 In court

Snail's habitat A court battle over an endangered West Coast snail is being heard by the Christchurch High Court, New Zealand. The lawsuit filed by anti-mining group Powelliphanta Augustus

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Down to Earth
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Alps, Animal Cruelty, Mining, Endangered Species, Tribals, Religious Beliefs, High Court, New Zealand
Wildlife

 Avoid using caste names for India's beasts

Hindu religion generally considers life forms as sacred and it has developed sanctity by association, such as the swan, eagle and bull that serve as vehicles for the major deities such as the

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
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Religious Beliefs, Wildlife, Birds, Human Rights, India
Environment

 Gandhian social worker Indu Tikekar passes away

"Only if science and development turn away from

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Down to Earth
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Environment, Women, Religious Beliefs, Personalities, India
Wildlife

 NEWS SNIPPETS

• Footage of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin's death will never be broadcast, his widow Terri has said in her first interview since his death in early September. "What purpose would that

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Down to Earth
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Environment, Religious Beliefs, Wildlife, Media, Personalities, Australia, Vehicular Pollution
Environment

 Multiculturalism a vague concept for West

holocaust-denial laws are the ultimate bunkum. Just think about it. The state of Israel has used the history of the Nazis to perpetrate untold miseries on the Arab world. This is not a rant. Think

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Environment, Religious Beliefs, Human Rights, War, Israel, Lebanon, Oil Pollution
Animal Care

 In Short

danger spilling out: Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex recently confirmed the fifth fuel spill in the past four months, even as authorities quoted a requirement of US $9 billion to repair the country's

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
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Animal Care, Religious Beliefs, Oil, Elephant, Mexico, Assam

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