State airs grievances over share of Narmada Water
Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh
Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Cosmic impacts
Scientists have long thought that a massive asteroid strike some 65 million years ago doomed the dinosaurs to extinction. Now new evidence suggests that another cosmic impact about 200 million years
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HC bans construction around Nandan Kanan
In what may be described as the culmination of environmentalists' campaign to save one of the most attractive zoological parks in the country, the Orissa High Court has banned all construction
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Andhra heat wave toll rises to 622
The death toll in the heat wave in Andhra Pradesh has further risen to 622 till Thursday night, the State Relief Commissioner D C Roshaiah
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Orissa farmers launch postcard campaign
Orissa Government's decision to move the Supreme Court against the High Court's order directing it to procure paddy directly from the farmers has enraged both the peasants and the Opposition
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Heat and thirst hit Capital's animal kingdom
The merciless heat and the erratic water supply have people complaining, but animals at the National Zoological Park cannot even do that. Battling the severe heat wave made worse by an acute water
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Seminar on noise pollution
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India on Saturday organised a seminar on noise pollution in association with the Maulana Azad Medical College. The seminar which was attended by a
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Siberian cranes
After helping whooping cranes migrate across the United States, the international crane foundation is getting ready to teach endangered Siberian cranes how to migrate across Central Asia. The US
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Kangaroo carnage
Shooters gathered on Monday to begin killing up to 15,000 Kangaroos on grasslands within an army base in Southern Australia, after the animals population surged and they were beginning to starve.
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'India must ban asbestos'
The Government of India has been urged by Magsaysay Award winner M C Mehta to ban asbestos. Mr. Mehta, who is also senior Advocate in the Supreme Court and an environmentalist was delivering a key
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Ghaziabad civic bodies look the other way as...
Residents of Ghaziabad are flouting every Municipal and Pollution Control Board rule, by digging deep bores to discharge their waste in under ground water level. The district administration's apathy