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Pointless: A US federal appeals court recently heard arguments on a five-year-old battle over whether the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Union pangs
Uk patients flood Spain's free healthcare
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www.povertyandconservation.info promoting good practice This site aims to promote good environment practices by linking conservation and poverty. It is a project led by the Poverty and
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Sharp practice
The current Indian standard for caffeine in soft drinks is lenient
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Hyderabad blues
Hyderabad has submitted a wish list worth Rs 20,017 crore to MoUD, under JNNURM. The ministry's central sanctioning and monitoring committee has approved Rs 379 crore and released Rs 33.22 crore as the first instalment.<br>
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<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> The film, <i>Cherub of the Mist</i> follows two zoo-bred pandas as they become the first ever released in the Singalila National Park in China. It reveals the mating, nest-building and rearing of new-born cubs.
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<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Parkland Medical Center in Derry, the US, has been honoured for becoming mercury-free. It got the
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Trading charges
MCI is the body that is supposed to monitor and enforce standards of medical education in both the private and state sector. <font class="UCASE">mci, </font> a statutory body <font class="UCASE"> </font> under the <font class="UCASE">m</font>o<font class="UCASE">hfw</font> , was established under the provisions of the Indian Medical Council (<font class="UCASE">imc</font>) Act, 1933.<br>
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Standard spiel
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Risk at work
Increasing number of employees fall victim to accidents and diseases
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Unhealthy system
Whatever the disagreements about the respective roles of the public and private sector in providing medical education, it is clear that the way the system works at present does not help address the health care needs of the majority of the people. This point is important: blaming individual doctors for not performing social service is pointless.
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Largest suppliers of uranium charged with inadequate safety measures in Niger
Auranium mining company operating in Arlit city in Niger has been accused of adopting inadequate safety measures, following findings that the radioactive metal was harming the local population.
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Worldly wise
India hardsells its troubled protected areas abroad
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Road to Amarnath
In the recently concluded summer session of the state legislative assembly at Srinagar, a new controversy on the "road to Amarnath' has divided the Jammu and Kashmir government. Gurcharan Singh
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<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Army contractors halted operations at the Newport Chemical Depot, in western Indiana, as nearly 500 gallons of caustic wastewater containing hydrolysate, leaked into a sealed area at the facility. This plant is used for destroying Cold War era chemical weapon VX.<br>
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India's western coast in trouble
West coast threatened
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Mining strike
The Mexican National Mining and Metal Workers Union representing four million workers recently gave strike notices to the labour department's arbitration board. More than 200 Mexican organisations
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<a href="http://www.focusweb.org" target="_blank"><font color=red>http://www.focusweb.org</u><br> <font class="UCASE"><b>North versus South</b></font> <br>
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Gujarat game
In India, Gujarat was the first state to make commercial use of biodiesel in buses, but it reverted to regular diesel within months. The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation contends it had to
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Virtual water trade
The article on