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  • Kerosene slips through greasy palms

    Kerosene slips through greasy palms

    Authorities tread on slippery ground trying to resolve the fuel crisis in Mysore

  • Bad blood

    Bad blood

    A committee of transfusion medicine experts has suggested that accepting blood from professional donors be immediately suspended because of the risk of infection. This has put the Union health

  • Hunger's satire

    Hindi poet Jayprakash Shakdvipiya has come out with a collection of his poems on the travails of the Bhil tribals. Kasak bhuke Bhil ki has 26 satires describing the benefits (sic) given to the

  • Ode to trash

    "A R Ammon's poem Garbage is a long ode to trash. It is also an autobiographical meditation and a reflection on humanity, which, according to the poet, is a form of garbage too." New York Times

  • Cleaner vehicles

    Cleaner vehicles

    The coordination committee of 4 ministries -- environment and forests, petroleum, surface transport and industries -- has decided to advance the enforcement of auto-emission norms specified for 1996

  • Misrepresenting maps

    "NO MAP is a throuoghly objective value-neutral device for describing distances and locations", says Mark Monmonier in his book, Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroveresy. There is an

    • 27/02/1995

  • Fly ash phoenix

    Fly ash phoenix

    Union minister of state for power P V Rangaiah Naidu has said that his ministry is considering the setting up of a National Ash Utilisation and Marketing Corp to promote utilisation of fly-ash from

  • Green wheles

    The Green Buyer's Car Guide rates the environmental friendliness of various cars. It ranks each model's polluting potential from exhaust pipe emissions, engines, fuel systems and airconditioners. An

  • Anti AIDS scheme

    Anti AIDS scheme

    In a serious bid to tackle AIDS, the Union government has launched a Rs 222.6 crore World Bank-assisted plan for the prevention and control of the disease. Part of the funding for the multisectoral

  • Power bait

    Power bait

    Following in Maharashtra's footsteps, the West Bengal power department has unveiled a package including time-of-the-day (ToD) metering and tariff concessions to cut costs and raise non-peak hour

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