Health outlay increase to 2.5% of GDP is proposed
The National Health Policy envisages an increase inhealth outlay from one percent to 2.5 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product. This would mean a jump from Rs 17,000 crores to Rs 40,000 crores.
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New satellite maps provide planners improved urban sprawl insight
A major advance in satellite-based land surface mapping has led to the creation of more accurate and detailed maps of our cities. These maps provide urban planners with a better understanding of city
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Scientists join forces to check Earth's health
Scientists from all over the world are set to begin an unprecedented study to map the health of the planet and provide possible remedies to cure its ills, the United Nations announced this week. "If
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Marine park law to be rewritten
Sloppy drafting of marine parks legislation has forced the Australian government to rewrite its laws, attracting criticism from both sides of politics. The legislation relates to the creation of
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Turner's U.N. fund plans world resource survey
One of the most ambitious projects to assess global environmental damage from the rapid consumption of natural resources was announced today by an unusual coalition of scientists, corporations,
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Nippon Paint finds pollutants at Osaka plant
Nippon Paint Co. said Tuesday it has detected seven contaminants in soil and groundwater at its production facility in Kita Ward, Osaka (Japan) that exceed government limits. The firm said the
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Noise levels set to rise in coming years
At a time when a lot of noise is being made about pollution, noise pollution remains a victim of the "lack of focus". According to the Delhi Urban Environment and Infrastructure Improvement
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TERI stresses on steps to tackle Yamuna Pollution at source
While the Delhi stretch of river Yamuna is in the limelight, with the Chief Minster, Ms Sheila Dixit, leading a clean-up drive and the Union Cabinet approving Rs 166.62 crore for this purpose, the
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US high court won't review rule on PCBs disposal
The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to review the federal Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule adopted in 1998 on the disposal of the chemical polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
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How rich nations can defuse that population bomb
While world population has doubled during the past several decades to more than 6 billion persons, birthrates in many countries have fallen to unprecedented low levels. The result is a demographic
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Official interest in environment low
The government's indifference about environment issues particularly cleaning of the polluted Yamuna river in Delhi became painfully evident on Monday when Mr Arjun Charan Sethi, Union minister of
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Sunderbans faces ecological threat
Rapid deforestation and an increase in population are destroying the ecological balance of the Sunderbans. On Sunderbans Day, experts and politicians discussed ways to avert the ecological
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Fight pollution
One of the hazardous consequences of man's voracious appetite is pollution, which is multi-dimensional and can be brought about by agents of surface and underground water, air, noise and
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All-you-can-eat economy is making the world sick
We're eating the same meat, drinking more coffee, popping more pills, driving further and getting fatter. Around the world we are consuming more than ever before: but more than one billion people
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Grief from glitter
The collapse of political order in Indonesia has put the world's fourth largest country through one nightmare after another in recent years. Factories are spewing toxins unchecked, illegal loggers
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Bush carries environment-friendly tone to Everglades
President Bush made Everglades National Park of lush, sweaty landscape of sawgrass prairies and mangrove forests the latest setting for his bid to assure Americans that he cares about the
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Towards development that doesn't hurt
Through the theme "Connect with the World Wide Web of Life", the UN sponsored World Environment Day observed in more than 100 countries on June 5 aims to stimulate worldwide environment awareness.
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Set up grain banks at grassroot levels: Shiva
The foodgrains procurement should begin at grassroot panchayat levels and for this community, grain banks should be set up, opined Ms Vandana Shiva of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology
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Emergency plan to tackle bamboo flowering menace
The Planing Commission is working on an emergency plan to tackle the environmental damage caused by the flowering of bamboo, expected to take place in 2003, 40 years after the last flowering season
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Felling of trees on the rise
Felling of green trees in Mahendragarh district is a common sight. The forest mafia is active in the area for the past one decade. The modus operandi of the mafia is to start felling green trees