World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Debate rages over Great Lakes leak
Bill Andresen is chairman of the International Great Lakes Coalition, which claims 4,000 members in the United States and Canada. The group contends lake levels already are manipulated to serve
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Capital's traffic woes
Many vehicles : The burgeoning traffic problem of Kathmandu city has been attributed to uncontrolled vehicle registration and lack of policy implementation. Traffic management experts gathered in
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First ever national incineration ban signed today in the Philippines
The International environmental group Greenpeace hailed the Philippine governments' approval of the Clean Air Act, which includes a total ban on incinerators, as an international environmental
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Novel trend in wildlife conservation
New avenues have been opened up in the direction of trans boundary cooperation between Nepal and India for what officials said "sustainable and long-term" bio-diversity conservation in the new
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Improve air quality
The government of Nepal introduced emission control laws to put an end to smoke belching vehicles in the capital city in 1997. Two years later, no one can claim that Kathmandu's air has become any
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Patents filed for dal, dosa
Patents have been filed abroad for making basic Indian dishes and food ingredients such as "khoya", "dal" and "dosa" posing a threat to the traditional knowledge and expertise of women at New Delhi
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Project to turn river basin into oasis
The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Northwest China is planning to spend 1.5 billion yuan (US$180 million) on improving the environment of the Tarim River, the world's second-longest inland
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Hubble telescope explains formation of universe
Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope complemented by data from large telescopes on Earth have made possible computer simulations to understand how the universe has evolved and galaxies
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Dwindling grasslands of Assam affecting bio-diversity
survey: The fate of several globally endangered species has been threatened by dwindling grasslands in Assam, which has no natural grass lands of any significance for conservation, say wildlife
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Centre urged to set up new tribunal on Narmada river
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh, today urged the Centre to set up a new tribunal on Narmada river for the equitable distribution of the Narmada water. Replying to the debate on