Hyderabad to get 422 posh new buses
Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the strikes and financial troubles, the Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation asserted on Thursday that it wanted to go ahead with its development schemes and announced the
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Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarcticas last refugium
<p>The Antarctic Peninsula is considered to be the last region of Antarctica to have been fully glaciated as a result of Cenozoic climatic cooling. As such, it was likely the last refugium for plants and animals that had inhabited the continent since it separated from the Gondwana supercontinent.
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Purification of drinking water is substandard
Anantapur, Oct.
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Eco awareness blossoms in drought-prone town
Anantapur, Aug. 10: A city in a drought-prone district has set an example by banning the use of plastic below 20 microns (0.2 mm) and that too from 2006.<br /><br />Tadipatri, the industrially developed town in Anantapur, is completely free of plastic and other hazardous substances.<br />
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Leaders fail to ensure underground drainage
<p>Anantapur, June 15: The long-pending underground drainage scheme for Anantapur city seems to remain unfulfilled due to political leaders’ apathy. This is a dream pending from 1996 for city people and clogged drains are making localities stink.<br />
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Acute water shortage stares at Anantapur
ANANTAPUR, Feb. 14: There will be severe drinking water problem in the Anantapur city in the ensuing summer as water levels in the summer storage tanks and borewells have reduced to dead storage level.
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100 consume polluted water, hospitalised
About 100 people of Durganagar and Sathya Sai Nagar areas in Dharmavaram town were hospitalised after suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea due to consumption of contaminated water on Thursday. According to people, municipal officials supplied drinking water to the two areas at 4 pm on Wednesday. People who drank the water, developed vomiting and diarrhoea.