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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- Problem of obsolete pesticide stocks deserves greater attention by donor countries and industry
Huge amounts of obsolete and unused pesticides continue to threaten human health and the environment in many developing countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned following the
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Grave threat to South India's bio-diversity
Environmentalist and advisor to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Dr. Rashmi Mayur, has warned of complete degradation in the sub-continent's ecology in the near future. Specifically, South
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State may face severe water crisis
Following the dry spell which has been plaguing the state over the last few days, the state government has come up with a scheme to economise use of water throughout the state. With effect from
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Punjab to spend Rs 1.3 billion on irrigation scheme
The Punjab government will spend an amount of Rs. 1.3 billion on improvement of water supply schemes and provision of water for irrigation purposes during the current fiscal to achieve the
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Evidence for RNA world view
US scientists have discovered evidence to support the view that life may have first evolved based on RNA, rather than its better known genetic cousin DNA. RNA transcribes DNA's code, producing
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Warning signals for our planet
Scientists have found that the earth's atmosphere has shrunk by eight kilo metre in the last 40 years, possibly as a fall out of accumulation of green house gases. Researchers of the British
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Vietnam provinces suffers as water dries up
Water supplies in a drought stricken province in central Vietnam are running out fast, triggering growing health fears. Quang province has already appealed for emergency aid as it struggles with its
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Land acquisition to be state govt's responsibility
The Central Government is assigning the entire responsibility for aquring land owned either by itself or an individual or the forest department to State Governments concerned for promoters of mega
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Kuala Lumpur's taps tapped out
Months of rationing by local water authorities in Kuala Lumpur-made necessary by a dry 1997 and dangerously low reservoirs are taking an increasingly heavy toll on the citizens. Ecologists say the
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France re-assesses whether its love of cars is diesel fired
New tax proposals may cause owners to examine the economy of running a diesel vehicle. The French government's 1999 budget proposals, would raise tax on the fuel and reduce the price advantage it