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• The opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in the Caspian basin area on May 25, 2005, witnessed much rejoicing as it is expected to end Russia's energy-transport monopoly in the region.
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• Through the Cairo Declaration on June 10, 2005, the African Union has said the US must end its cotton subsidies by December 2005. It has also called for a "credible end date' to eliminate
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epidemic in up: Japanese encephalitis (JE) has killed 153 people in eastern Uttar Pradesh, especially in Mahrajganj, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabirnagar, Siddharthanagr and Deoria. As many as 530
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The new Money plant
The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India s burgeoning oil import bill. And there s lots of money to be made. But who will earn? What land will be used for this? <font class='UCASE'>down t
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kandla mishap: 15 labourers were killed on June 29, 2006, at the Kandla port in Gujarat, when a Cyprus flag ship M V Pontonostos collided with the Anchor Handling Barge. The accident occurred in
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• African country Chad has ordered two major foreign oil firms, US firm ChevronTexaco and Malaysia's Petronas, responsible for 60 per cent of its oil production, to quit the country in a row
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Scratched record
Will SEZs succeed, where precursors failed?'
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Dark secret
How plants survive during night
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Hectic parleys
The G 20 bloc of nations faces new challenges
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Nestle s crimes
In Brazil exposed by advocacy group
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NASA failed again
Discovery,us space agency nasa' s space shuttle , returned to Earth on August 9, 2005, after a 14-day trip that has questioned the safety of nasa 's space shuttle programme. A bit of Discovery's
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South Asia
Landmark judgement: For the first time, a UScourt has recognised the potentially disastrous effects of climate change. The California court recently permitted environmental groups Greenpeace and
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www.waterjournalism.orgHealthy initiative In 2004, five mainstream journalists and a producer from All India Radio teamed up with the Bangalore-based non-profit organisation, Communication for
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Single point fuel injection
Chhattisgarh is a lesson in biodiesel realities
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Reactors renewal
A plan to extend the life of Hungary's only nuclear power plant has sparked protests from environmentalists. The four reactors in the southern town of Paks supply around 40 per cent of Hungary's
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Environment, genes, and breast cancer
New evidence on an old killer
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New method of extracting edible oil
It may now be possible to bio-engineer plants to produce more oil. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore have come up with a new mechanism to produce more oil. They have also
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New whine
Global warming portends disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar us wine industry; areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 per cent
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NEWS SNIPPETS
• The Madhya Pradesh Congress distributed 50-paise pouches of the extremely addictive gutka to shore up its chances in the recent Lok Sabha bypolls in Vidisha, a largely rural area near