With another drought looming over Gujarat, industries have been banned from drawing water from dams and reservoirs in Saurashtra, Kutch and north Gujarat.

The Union government is planning to introduce several measures in the automobile policy to curtail the import of old cars, said Manohar Joshi, Union industry minister.

In the wake of the death of 13 tigers at the Nandankanan zoo in Orissa and the recent killing of a tigress at a Andhra Pradesh zoo, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world's largest animal rights organisation, has requested the governments of both the states to dismantle all the zoos of the states and release animals into the forests.

The Rajasthan government has alleged that many industrial units in Punjab and Haryana are discharging waste into the Indira Gandhi Feeder Canal, which is causing serious health problems for people in some areas of Rajasthan.

An international conference of farmers held in Bangalore has reinstated its commitment to "confront and defeat' the global agenda of neo-liberalism. The conference was organised by La Via Campesina, a federation, which has been jointly set up by more than 100 international farmers' organisation.

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