India's gas chambers
POLLUTIONWHO's latest research reveals that Delhi has the highest levels of air pollution. Choking air Indian cities are reporting dangerously high levels of air pollution with Delhi topping the list
Nidhi Jamwal
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Redevelopment disguises landgrab
Government
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Not enough beds
Even in private hospitals; central India is worse off For 829 people in central India, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, there is just one bed in private hospitals. This is the worst hospital bed-to-person ratio in India, revealed a first-time survey of private healthcare facilities in the country. All over India the bed-to-people ratio is 1: 422. Government hospitals
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Desperate for rains
Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, its standing committee decided to induce artificial rains through cloud seeding. As per
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World shrinks for oysters
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Where do pregnant women go?
Deliver at home with trained midwives and avoid caesarean section A belly dancer, tarot-card readers and yoga therapists, people not associated with childbirth, tea med up with midwives, masseurs and hypnotists at a mela in Mumbai last month to teach 60 women how to give birth naturally. Birth India, a non-profit established in 2007 to address the increasing number of caesarean
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More floods, no winter
Arnab Pratim Dutta
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More floods, no winter
No winter This could be a recipe for more natural disasters, like the 2005 deluge, says Nidhi Jamwal The climate in Indian cities like Mumbai is warming up fast a one-off event. The climate in Indian cities, like Mumbai, is warming up fast and this could be a recipe for more natural disasters, says the India Meteorological Department (IMD)
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Zoo sans garden
Modernization of Mumbai zoo threatens botanical garden A RS 433-crore zoo modernization plan of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has come in for criticism. Citizen action groups and non-profits alleged the plan would lead to the destruction of the 21-hectare (ha) Jijamata Udyan where the zoo is located. The corporation denied this. The groups claimed the corporation had
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Its the typos, stupid
No problems with Goa project, Environment Appellate Authority says THE National Environment Appellate Authority last month dismissed an appeal that had challenged environmental clearance to a high-grade iron ore plant in Sanguem taluka in Goa. In September 2008, Sushant Naik, a Sanguem resident, had filed the appeal and alleged discrepancies in the environmental impact assessment report of
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Caffeine hits energy drinks
Energy drinks sold in restaurants and grocery stores have caught the eye of food regulators in Maharashtra. In the first week of April, they seized large quantities of beverages sold under brands like Red Bull, Cloud 9, Fighter and SoBe Adrenaline Rush from godowns in Pune and Mumbai.