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• The Indian Oil Corporation will be penalised by the Calcutta Port Trust for the oil spill at Haldia barge jetty on May 30-31. The port authorities said that the incident was not an accident but a case of gross negligence.

• Dunlop India's tyre manufacturing factory at Sahagunj, West Bengal, has been shut down following a closure notice issued by the Supreme Court as it failed to comply with pollution control norms, within May 31,1996.

• At least 35 rhinos were killed and their horns taken away by poachers in Kaziranga National Park, Assam in the past one month. The people of Kaziranga alleged that such incidents are happening due to the negligence of the Forest department.

• Two new rice varieties, DRRH- I and Krishna Hamsa, which are expected to give a better yield than the existing varieties have been developed by the directorate of 'rice research (DRR) Hyderabad. Efforts are on to release the seed to open market by November according to DRR sources.

• The two Siberian cranes that disappeared from Keoladeo National Park near Bharatpur in Rajasthan on March 4 have safely arrived at their traditional nesting ground in the Kunovat river basin in the remote Artic circle. The Russian scientists informed this to the Wildlife Society of India.

• The secret recipe for asthma, a yellow paste prepared by the Basthini Gowd family of Hyderabad served with a live five to he swallowed, was administered to seven lack people this year. The medicine has to be taken thrice in one year for complete cure. The family is preparing the paste for the past 150 years.

• The deadly malaria disease has struck the state of Assam once again, for the second year in a row. Since the onset of the monsoons, 40 persons are reported to have succumbed.

• A recent World Bank report says that the sex ratio in India has deteriorated making it one of the few countries where males significantly outnumber females. According to the 1991 census, there were 927 females for every 1,000 males in India. The report says that according to a current estimate about 35 million women have died due to sex-selected discrimination.

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