Cancer not enough? Smoking has other risks
If the potential for heart attacks and lung cancer doesn't scare you off your cigarette habit - you may think those things just happen to other people - consider these other risks: Young women who
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Saket, Moti bagh on MCD malaria watchlist
The number of cases of malaria in Delhi is increasing daily. According to data compiled by the health department of the MCD, 136 cases of malaria were reported from different parts of the city on
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Alarming rise in asthma cases in B'lore
Bangalore severely polluted air has encouraged asthma to become a permanent resident with children and traffic cops being the worst sufferers. A hospital based study on 20,000 children under the
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Exotic fish trade fights with image, breeding
The ornamental fishing industry, which supplies a rainbow of exotic species to aquarium owners across the world, is grappling with the perception that it harms the environment and the slippery issue
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China, US agree on WTO issues
China's chances of an early entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) brightened on Saturday with it reaching a "full consensus" with the US on the remaining issues concerning multilateral trade
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European Union completes environmental deal with accession frontrunners
The EU has agreed to extend transition periods for the implementation of certain directives in Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic.
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Death of fish: Efforts on to prevent cholera
The stench from the thousands of fish which have died due to poisoning in the Benakana lake near Devadurga in Karnataka has polluted the whole environment in the area. Though the dead fish are
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Workshop on environment from 13 June
A three-day international workshop to deal with wide ranging issues like environmental tools and instruments, their effectiveness and economy aspects of controlling the industrial pollution in the
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Poland provides a wealth of opportunity for UK environmental business
There is considerable opportunity in Poland for UK environmental businesses, but companies have to be warned that with firms from other countries, particularly Germany, having already been in the
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AIADMK man held for tree felling
The Forest Department today took into custody Murugayyan of Thenampadugai village in Thanjavur district, in Tamil Nadu secretary of the local AIADMK unit, in connection with large-scale illicit
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Swaminathan calls for grain bank movement
Eminent agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan has called for launching a community grain bank movement to cater to 'hunger hot spot' villages across the country. To begin with, about 25,000 grain
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The quest for a vaccine plods on
Seventeen years have passed since US government officials and a prominent scientist, in a moment of wishful thinking that they will never live down, stood up at a news conference and announced that
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Govt to launch tree plantation drive
The Delhi government has decided to launch a massive tree plantation drive under its "greening Delhi" plan for the year 2001-2002. According to an action plan prepared to carry out this plan, around
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Oil slick found off Vadinar, marine park threatened again
For the second time within a week, marine life in the Marine National Park near Vadinar in Jamnagar district of Gujarat has been been threatened-this time by an oil slick.
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Northern environment industry body announces second North East business environment month
An environment trade body, based in the North of England is calling for participation in their November 2001 environment month, promoting the sector in the North
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Lure of the Forest
Who should have the final say in the use of forest land? The Forest (Conservation) Act expressly forbids state governments from using forest land for non-forest purposes. On paper at least, the
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Animal rights protest at bank
Animal rights campaigners chained themselves to the London headquarters of Morgan Stanley in protest at the bank's links with Huntingdon Life Sciences, the drug testing group. The move is the start
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Leprosy elimination project in phase II
The Rs 249.8 crore second-phase of the National Leprosy Elimination project was kicked off today with a Rs 142.6-crore aid from the World Bank. The target is to bring down leprosy cases to less than
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Triple US spending on conservation -Soil group
Congress should triple U.S. spending on soil and water conservation, including creating "green payments" for good stewardship, an agricultural conservation group said this week. It asked for at least
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Positive message, not doom and gloom, will move us into sustainability
Companies and individuals need to be told the positive messages of environmental stewardship of resource efficiency and portraying a positive image to customers in order to move society towards true